Jump to ContentJump to Main Navigation
The Amboseli ElephantsA Long-Term Perspective on a Long-Lived Mammal$
Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content.
The Amboseli Elephants: A Long-Term Perspective on a Long-Lived Mammal

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

Print publication date: 2011

Print ISBN-13: 9780226542232

Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: February 2013

DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226542263.001.0001

ContentsFRONT MATTER
Show Summary Details
Page of

PRINTED FROM CHICAGO SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (www.chicago.universitypressscholarship.com). (c) Copyright University of Chicago Press, 2020. All Rights Reserved. An individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in CHSO for personal use.date: 28 February 2020

The Amboseli Elephants: Introduction

The Amboseli Elephants: Introduction

Chapter:
(p.1) Chapter 1 The Amboseli Elephants: Introduction
Source:
The Amboseli Elephants
Author(s):

Cynthia J. Moss

Harvey Croze

Phyllis C. Lee

Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226542263.003.0001

Elephants are long-lived animals, and to gather the data necessary to understand and describe their ecology and behavior would need a lifetime—both of elephant and human. To shed light on their full lifespan, the project in question and the elephants are to survive long enough. For this, humans have to safeguard the space required for sustaining members of this unique population and the capacity for future research. This chapter lays out four underlying themes that run throughout the chapters in the current volume: longevity, size, intelligence, and the future of the elephants in a changing and threatened ecosystem. All four themes situate the study and the volume in a single place: Amboseli. This volume is special in that it approaches a single species in one place from many perspectives, exploring how it makes a living in a specific but constantly changing habitat over a 60-plus-year lifespan from birth to death.

Keywords:   ecology, elephant, animal behavior, Amboseli elephant, longevity, lifespan, intelligence, ecosystem

Chicago Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.

Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.

If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.

To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.