During the nineteenth century, ivory hunting caused a substantial decrease of elephant numbers in southern Africa. Soon after that, populations of many other large and medium-sized herbivores went into steep decline due to the rinderpest pandemic in the 1890s. These two events p…
"This book focuses on the ecological effects of the increasing elephant population in northern Botswana, presenting the importance of the elephants for the heterogeneity of the system, and showing that elephant ecology involves much wider spatiotemporal scales than was previousl…
BLURB TO COME! DO NOT USE TEXT BELOW! The proposed book will be composed of 16 chapters, each written by one lead author and 2-7 additional authors/contributors. The book draws on the results of five years research on the dynamics of an ecosystem where elephant and antelope popu…
Recounts how three elephants in a Tokyo zoo were put to death because of the war, focusing on the pain shared by the elephants and the keepers who must starve them.
A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression…
When Tommy saved the rich man who fell into the sea he was given an unusual pet in gratitude.
After being separated from her grandfather in the forest, a young African girl sees elephant poaching firsthand when she rescues a baby elephant whose mother has been killed by hunters.
"The book ventures to look into eras bygone in order to chronicle the passage of three mega species--the rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), tiger (Panthera tigris), and elephant (Elephas maximus)--across millennia in early north India. It carefully sifts through an archive compr…
"The book ventures to look into eras bygone in order to chronicle the passage of three mega species--the rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), tiger (Panthera tigris), and elephant (Elephas maximus)--across millennia in early north India. It carefully sifts through an archive compr…
"The book ventures to look into eras bygone in order to chronicle the passage of three mega species--the rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), tiger (Panthera tigris), and elephant (Elephas maximus)--across millennia in early north India. It carefully sifts through an archive compr…
The majority of Kenya's wildlife is found outside protected areas and depends on public tolerance for survival. This study examines residents' willingness to allow elephants (Loxodonta africana ) in group ranches bordering Amboseli National Park, Kenya. Several interventions aim…
