Echo of the Elephants (gnv64)

Echo of the Elephants: The Story of an Elephant Family
by Cynthia Moss and Martyn Colbeck
Quill | May 1994 | ISBN-10: 0688135137 | scanned PDF | 192 pages | 27 mb
http://www.amazon.com/Echo-Elephants-Story-Elephant-Family/dp/0688135137

A photographic and textual record of eighteen months in the lives of one elephant family in Kenya's Amboseli National Park presents photographs and a text that offer insights into every aspect of the elephants' lives.
Moss has been studying the elephant population in Kenya's Ambesoli National Park for more than 20 years. Her work here documents an intense 18-month observation, from January 1990 to June 1991, of a single family unit. Moss escorted cinematographer Colbeck as he filmed a documentary, airing on PBS's "Nature" program this month. Moss's charming writing makes for understandable science. Her text reads like a novel yet is scientifically accurate, unexaggerated, and highly informative.
Readers will become involved with matriarch Echo and her family, kin, and clan. Librarians should have handy Moss's previous work, Elephant Memories: Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family ( LJ 2/15/88), as there is likely to be interest in it as well. Strongly recommended for all public libraries and elephant/Africa collections.

CONTENTS
Acknowledgements 6
FOREWORD by Sir David Attenborough 9
INTRODUCTION l3
BETWEEN THE RAINS January to earll Marcb 1990 35
THE RAINY SEASON Marcb to Mal 1990 77
THE DRY SEASON June to early November 1990 100
DROUGHT November 1990 to Marcb 1991 134
THE LONG RAINS Late March to June 1991 159
Index 190