This book is the summation of what's been learned from the Amboseli Elephant Research Project (AERP) - the longest continuously running elephant research project in the world.

In this book, she shares a more up-close and personal perspective, chronicling the lives of the elephant families led by matriarchs Teresia, Slit Ear, Torn Ear, Tania, and Tuskless, including a rare look at calves and their development.

Records an eighteen month period in the life of one elephant family in Amboseli National Park in Kenya.

From The National Audubon Society, an internationally known organization working on behalf of environmental and wildlife conservation causes, comes this exquisite photographic essay on the African elephant.

He gives a factual account of the early history of the area, and this new revised edition looks at worrying trends over the last twenty years.

This is a selection of his best photographs taken during that period showing all the facets of the elephant life and family, from the African bull in must and the matriarchal family down to the tiniest new born elephant.

In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of the ecology, behaviour and cognition of elephants.