- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 1st. Edition edition (18 Sep 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 047153207X
- ISBN-13: 978-0471532071
- Product Dimensions: 31.4 x 23.8 x 2.5 cm
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- #58 in Books > Science & Nature > Nature > Wild Animals > By Region > Africa
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The African elephant has been hunted to near extinction by ivory poachers, and even now its survival hangs in the balance. With over 125 colour pictures, this is a graphic illustration of the African elephant's complete history of human contact, including many details about elephant society, mating habits, communication, family life and raising young, even death and mourning.
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"DEEP IN THE WARM EARTH OF AFRICA'S MEDITERRAnean shores lie the bones of extinct races of elephant, creatures driven from existence by Romans, Carthaginians, and Egyptians in the time of the pharaohs." Read the first page
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"DEEP IN THE WARM EARTH OF AFRICA'S MEDITERRAnean shores lie the bones of extinct races of elephant, creatures driven from existence by Romans, Carthaginians, and Egyptians in the time of the pharaohs." Read the first page
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Elegant Elephants
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It's an excellent book giving an insight into the life of an elephant.Worth reading.
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