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Elephants - Up Close and Personal (Paperback)
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Elephants - Up Close and Personal (Paperback)
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Loot Price R487
Discovery Miles 4 870
You Save R188 (28%)
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Elephants are a keystone species and have been a part of the magic
of the thickly forested land of South Africa for millennia. This
book focuses on the history and work of Knysna Elephant Park, a
leading South African elephant research facility that has been home
to more than 40 elephants in 25 years. Unfortunately, all the
mystique of the Knysna elephant has been reduced to a single
elephant left alive. Exploring a wide range of topics, this book
covers the impact of elephants' interactions with tourists, how
they recover from trauma and even their relevance in human
healthcare. Renowned elephant researchers explain the majesty of
the elephant brain, which has the largest temporal lobe devoted to
communication, language, spatial memory and cognition. To this
effect, the book emphasizes the threat of poaching to these gentle
giants, which has almost forced them to extinction. Perhaps if
humans pay attention to how elephants symbolize our relationship
with nature, we can learn important lessons about humanity itself.
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