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The Elephant's Secret Sense de Caitlin O'Connell

The Elephant's Secret Sense

Autor Caitlin O'Connell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2009
Tells the story of a previously unknown mode of elephant communication. This work offers an account of the author's relationship with the animals she studied for fourteen years in the Namibian wilderness - a poverty-stricken land threatened by expanding human populations and unstable politics.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781851686438
ISBN-10: 1851686436
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Oneworld Publications
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Caitlin O’Connell is an assistant professor in the Department of Otolaryngology, Head, and Neck Surgery at Stanford University. Her discoveries have been published in various periodicals, including Science, Science News, Natural History, National Geographic, the Economist, and Discover.

Cuprins

1 Listening Through Limbs
2 The Caprivi
3 Wet Season Elephant Wars
4 Making Sense of the Elephant
5 Tiptoeing Elephants
6 The Dry Season
7 The Mother of All Elephants
8 Elephants on the Move
9 Cracking the Elephant Morse Code
10 Ivory Ghosts
11 The Wheels of Conservation
12 Donna the Dancer
13 Back to Mushara in Style
14 Keeping an Ear to the Ground
15 Wynona's Last Stand
16 The Gentlemen's Club
17 The Sails of Mushara
Acknowledgments
Index

Recenzii

“Our author sleeps in blinds, pores through elephant dung, darts and collars elephant matriarchs, puts zoo elephants on force plates to send vibrations to their feet, even cuts up a frozen elephant to search for vibration-sensitive cells in its toes and heels. . . . A compelling memoir of how a small but fascinating biological discovery is made, from a momentary observation to a fully presented theory.”

“I was transported by the author’s superbly sensuous descriptions of her years spent studying the animals. . . . Conjure[s] a high-class nature documentary film in prose.”

“A ride as rough and astonishing as the roads of the African floodplain.”

“A successful combination of science and soulfulness, explaining her groundbreaking theory of how elephants use seismic communication. . . . [O’Connell’s] account is studded with sympathetic insights and well-turned phrases.”

“This fascinating book reads like a fast-paced detective story of a scientific discovery and adventure set in contemporary Africa. . . . By the end, [O’Connell] takes her rightful place among the leading biographers of the African elephant.”

"Effective communicators of science are scarce and O'Connell provides a valuable contribution in the form of a realistic and compelling description of international field work. Those interested in Africa or elephants in general will be rewarded."