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Seeing the Elephant : The Ties That Bind Elephants and Humans

Author: Eric Scigliano
SKU: 9780747574712

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For millennia, people all over the world have revered, adored and exploited elephants. In Thailand, a pregnant woman might duck under an elephant’s belly to encourage an easy delivery; a tycoon has built an elephant-shaped skyscraper; and pirate loggers feed amphetamines to their elephants to make them haul backbreaking loads. In India, worshippers dance with gilded tuskers at ecstatic temple festivals.

Scientists have proposed to restore lost ecosystems by reintroducing the elephants and mammoths that once ruled them. And generation after generation of readers have delighted in Babar, Horton and Dumbo. In a kaleidoscopic account rich in historic lore, surprising science and exotic adventure, Eric Scigliano traces an enduring, extraordinary relationship between species and shows how it still haunts and inspires us today.

  • Classifications: Wildlife: general interest
  • Readership:General (US: Trade)
  • Format: Paperback softback 368 pages, Illustrations, ports.

ISBN : 9780747574712

Published : 16 Jan 2006

Author : Eric Scigliano

Main Material : Paperback softback

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Size : 132 x 197 x 32 (mm)

Weight : 402g

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