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The Amboseli Elephants: A Long-Term Perspective on a Long-Lived Mammal

Cynthia J. Moss, Harvey Croze, and Phyllis C. Lee

Abstract

Elephants have fascinated humans for millennia. Their ivory has been sought after and treasured in most cultures, and they have delighted zoo and circus audiences worldwide for centuries. But it was not until the second half of the twentieth century that people started to take an interest in elephants in the wild, and some of the most important studies of these intelligent giants have been conducted at Amboseli National Park in Kenya. This book provides a summation of what has been learned from the Amboseli Elephant Research Project—the longest continuously running elephant research project in ... More

Keywords: elephants, ivory, zoos, circuses, Amboseli National Park, Kenya, elephant research project, elephant minds, ecosystems, genetics

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2011	Print ISBN-13: 9780226542232
Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: February 2013	DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226542263.001.0001

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Cynthia J. Moss, editor

Harvey Croze, editor

Phyllis C. Lee, editor

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Cynthia J. Moss, Harvey Croze, and Phyllis C. Lee

Part 1 The Amboseli Context: Ecology, People, and Genetics

Section editors W. Keith Lindsay and Harvey Croze

Chapter 2 Amboseli Ecosystem Context: Past and Present

Harvey Croze and W. Keith Lindsay

Chapter 3 The Human Context of the Amboseli Elephants

Kadzo Kangwana and Christine Browne-Nuñez

Chapter 4 The Population Genetics of the Amboseli and Kilimanjaro Elephants

Elizabeth A. Archie, Courtney L. Fitzpatrick, Cynthia J. Moss, and Susan C. Alberts

Part 2 Habitat Use, Population Dynamics, and Ranging

Section editors: W. Keith Lindsay and Harvey Croze

Chapter 5 Habitat Use, Diet Choice, and Nutritional Status in Female and Male Amboseli Elephants

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The Amboseli Elephants: A Long-Term Perspective on a Long-Lived Mammal

Cynthia J. Moss, Harvey Croze, and Phyllis C. Lee

Abstract

Bibliographic Information

Authors

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Contents

Front Matter

Cynthia J. Moss, Harvey Croze, and Phyllis C. Lee

Part 1 The Amboseli Context: Ecology, People, and Genetics

Section editors W. Keith Lindsay and Harvey Croze

Harvey Croze and W. Keith Lindsay

Kadzo Kangwana and Christine Browne-Nuñez

Elizabeth A. Archie, Courtney L. Fitzpatrick, Cynthia J. Moss, and Susan C. Alberts

Part 2 Habitat Use, Population Dynamics, and Ranging

Section editors: W. Keith Lindsay and Harvey Croze

W. Keith Lindsay

Phyllis C. Lee, W. Keith Lindsay, and Cynthia J. Moss

Harvey Croze and Cynthia J. Moss

Part 3: Behavior, Communication, and Cognition

Section editor: Joyce H. Poole

Joyce H. Poole and Petter Granli

Joyce H. Poole

Karen McComb, David Reby, and Cynthia J. Moss

Richard W. Byrne and Lucy A. Bates

Part 4 Reproductive Strategies and Social Relationships

Section editors: Phyllis C. Lee and Joyce H. Poole

Cynthia J. Moss and Phyllis C. Lee

Cynthia J. Moss and Phyllis C. Lee

Phyllis C. Lee and Cynthia J. Moss

Elizabeth A. Archie, Cynthia J. Moss, and Susan C. Alberts

Hamisi Mutinda, Joyce H. Poole, and Cynthia J. Moss

Phyllis C. Lee, Joyce H. Poole, Norah Njiraini, Catherine N. Sayialel, and Cynthia J. Moss

Joyce H. Poole, Phyllis C. Lee, Norah NjirainiandCynthia J. Moss

Part 5 Elephants in the Human World

Section editors: Cynthia J. Moss and Kadzo Kangwana

Christine Browne-Nuñez

Kadzo Kangwana

Joyce H. Poole, W. Keith Lindsay, Phyllis C. Lee, and Cynthia J. Moss

Harvey Croze, Cynthia J. Moss, and W. Keith Lindsay

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