The elephant's secret sense
Subtitle: the hidden life of the wild herds of Africa
By: Caitlin O'Connell
Publisher: Oneworld
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781851685585
Subjects: African elephant; Behavior; Conservation
Description: In The Elephant's Secret Sense, the internationally renowned field scientist Caitlin O'Connell tells the fascinating story of her unexpected discovery of a previously unknown mode of elephant communication. One day, while observing elephants at a waterhole in Namibia, O'Connell saw the matriarch suddenly turn, flatten her ears, and lift a leg off the ground. Several other females then turned to face the same direction, and soon another elephant appeared. Could elephants feel vibrations through the ground, literally 'listening' with their feet?
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Listening through limbs -- -- 2.; title: The caprivi -- -- 3.; title: Wet season elephant wars -- -- 4.; title: Making sense of the elephant -- -- 5.; title: Tiptoeing elephants -- -- 6.; title: The dry season -- -- 7.; title: The mother of all elephants -- -- 8.; title: Elephants on the move -- -- 9.; title: Cracking elephant morse code -- -- 10.; title: Ivory ghosts -- -- 11.; title: The wheels of conservation -- -- 12.; title: Donna the dancer -- -- 13.; title: Back to mushara in style -- -- 14.; title: Keeping an ear to the ground -- -- 15.; title: Wynona's last stand -- -- 16.; title: The gentlemen's club -- -- 17.; title: The sails of mushara.