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Elephants on the Edge What Animals Teach Us about Humanity Author: G. A. Bradshaw Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behavior, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions, and lives of elephants. Wars, starvation, mass culls, poaching, and habitat loss have reduced elephant numbers from more than ten million to a few hundred thousand, l...  more »eaving orphans bereft of the elders who would normally mentor them. As a consequence, traumatized elephants have become aggressive against people, other animals, and even one another; their behavior is comparable to that of humans who have experienced genocide, other types of violence, and social collapse. By exploring the elephant mind and experience in the wild and in captivity, Bradshaw bears witness to the breakdown of ancient elephant cultures. All is not lost. People are working to save elephants by rescuing orphaned infants and rehabilitating adult zoo and circus elephants, using the same principles psychologists apply in treating humans who have survived trauma. Bradshaw urges us to support these and other models of elephant recovery and to solve pressing social and environmental crises affecting all animals, human or not.  « less Post This Book Login | Register ISBN-13: 9780300127317 ISBN-10: 0300127316 Publication Date: 10/6/2009 Pages: 352 Rating: Currently 0/5 Stars.   ? 0 stars, based on 0 rating Publisher: Yale University Press Book Type: Hardcover Other Versions: Paperback Members Wishing: 6 Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review

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