Elephant Reader
Subtitle: From Aristotle and Ivory to Science and Conservation
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781595348661
Other titles: Thirty-Three Ways of Looking at an Elephant
First sentence: Elephants and their ancestors, all members of the order Probosicidea––the proboscideans––emerged from the mammalian line some 60 million years ago in the form of such exotic creatures as the Moeritherium––a Latinized coinage honoring “the Wild Animal of Moeris.”