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Cynthia Moss is the author of Elephant Memories (2000), Neuroethological Studies Of Cognitive And Perceptual Processes (2018), Echo of the Elephants (1992), Little Big Ears (1997), Das Jahr der Elefanten (2002).

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Elephant Memories

release date: Jan 01, 2000
Elephant Memories
Cynthia Moss has studied the elephants in Kenya''s Amboseli National Park for over twenty-seven years. Her long-term research has revealed much of what we now know about these complex and intelligent animals. Here she chronicles the lives of the members of the T families led by matriarchs Teresia, Slit Ear, Torn Ear, Tania, and Tuskless. With a new afterword catching up on the families and covering current conservation issues, Moss''s story will continue to fascinate animal lovers. "One is soon swept away by this ''Babar'' for adults. By the end, one even begins to feel an aversion for people. One wants to curse human civilization and cry out, ''Now God stand up for the elephants!''"—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times "Moss speaks to the general reader, with charm as well as scientific authority. . . . [An] elegantly written and ingeniously structured account." —Raymond Sokolov, Wall Street Journal "Moss tells the story in a style so conversational . . . that I felt like a privileged visitor riding beside her in her rickety Land-Rover as she showed me around the park." —Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, New York Times Book Review "A prose-poem celebrating a species from which we could learn some moral as well as zoological lessons." —Chicago Tribune

Neuroethological Studies Of Cognitive And Perceptual Processes

release date: Feb 12, 2018
Neuroethological Studies Of Cognitive And Perceptual Processes
How do bats catch insects in the dark? How do bees learn which flowers to visit? How do food-storing birds remember where their hoards are? Questions like these are addressed by neuroethology, the branch of behavioral neuroscience concerned with analyzing the neural bases of naturally occurring behaviors. This book brings together thirteen chapters presenting findings on perceptual and cognitive processes in some of the most active areas of neuroethological research, including auditory localization by bats and owls, song perception and learning in birds, pitch processing by frogs and toads, imprinting in birds, spatial memory in birds, learning in bees and in Aplysia, and electroreception in fish. A variety of approaches are represented, such as field studies, psychophysical tests, electrophysiological experiments, lesion studies, comparative neuroanatomy, and studies of development. Each chapter gives an up-to-date overview of a particular author’s research and places it within the broader context of issues about animal perception and cognition. The book as a whole exemplifies how studying species and their particular specializations can inform general issues in psychology, ethology, and neuro-science.

Echo of the Elephants

release date: Jan 01, 1992
Echo of the Elephants
Records an eighteen month period in the life of one elephant family in Amboseli National Park in Kenya.

Little Big Ears

release date: Jan 01, 1997
Little Big Ears
Follows a young elephant as he struggles to survive during his first year of life with the help of his family in Amboseli, a protected wildlife park in Kenya.

Das Jahr der Elefanten

release date: Jan 01, 2002

Portraits in the Wild

Portraits in the Wild
Synthesizes the results of some of the more recent systematic observations and studies of the behavior of fifteen major East African species, including the elephant, giraffe, black rhinoceros, zebra, wildebeest, lion, and spotted hyena

La longue marche des éléphants

release date: Jan 01, 1989
La longue marche des éléphants
Ce livre traite de la vie quotidienne d''une famille élargie d''éléphants, de la façon dont ils survivent ou succombent aux sécheresses, aux maladies, aux blessures, etc. Après une scène d''introduction relativement brève, chaque chapitre se répartit en deux temps: d''abord le thème général (accouplement, organisation sociale, etc.), ensuite les événements et les évolutions observés dans la vie de la harde. Une somme unique de connaissances prises sur le vif.

Los elefantes

release date: Jan 01, 1992

Die Elefanten vom Kilimandscharo

release date: Jan 01, 1990

Das Jahr der Elephanten

release date: Jan 01, 1994
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