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    Elephant Sense and Sensibility
    Elephant Sense and Sensibility
    Elephant Sense and Sensibility
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    Elephant Sense and Sensibility

    By Michael Garstang

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    Elephant Sense and Sensibility is a comprehensive treatment of the full range of elephant behavior. Beginning with chapters on evolution and the elephant’s brain, this book is an integrated presentation of the elephant’s capacity for memory, morality, emotion, empathy, altruism, language, intelligence, learning and teaching. Grounded primarily in scientific research, the book also draws upon anecdotal and visual evidence showing elephants thinking, acting, feeling and behaving in ways that we, as humans, recognize. This complete treatment of elephant behavior supported by the extensive literature, along with anecdotal and photographic material, provides an overview not available in any other text.

    • Covers a variety of aspects that relate to behavior, ranging from brain function and sensory input to communication, learning, and intelligence
    • Features a comprehensive treatment of elephant behavior supported by the extensive literature, anecdotal information, and striking photographic material, providing an overview not available in any other text
    • Features an interdisciplinary approach to behavior, with vital information included and integrated from several key disciplines
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAcademic Press
    Release dateFeb 12, 2015
    ISBN9780128024874
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      Elephant Sense and Sensibility - Michael Garstang

      gratitude.

      Chapter 1

      Introduction

      Abstract

      The book opens with an account of how Namibian elephants, impacted and disrupted by civil wars, were able to return to desert habitats, finding favored watering places deep in the trackless sands of the Namib Desert. Such feats of navigation, as well as detection and recognition of unnatural dangers such as land mines, speak to both the memory and neural capacity of elephants.

      A brief overview of the content of the book is described for the chapters that follow, beginning with the evolution of the elephant, its brain, and the elephant’s capacity for memory, morality, emotion, empathy, altruism, language, learning, and

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