Cynthia Moss is a dedicated conservationist and researcher specializing in African elephants. Her life's work revolves around studying the family structures, life cycles, and behaviors of elephant populations in Kenya. Through over four decades of meticulous observation, she offers unparalleled insights into the complex lives of these magnificent creatures. Her contributions are vital for understanding and protecting elephants.
Cynthia Moss has spent 13 years in the Amboseli National Park in Kenya, and is currently Director of their Elephant Research Project. She has constantly observed one particular family of elephants, and this book details objectively, yet movingly, all aspects of their behaviour.
The elephants of Amboseli park in southern Kenya have been the subject of a unique study for many years. This book, which covers a period of 18 months, is written in the form of a journal which documents the saga of a particular family of elephants whose lives have become central to that of their observer, Cynthia Moss. Far from taking the formal and conventional approach of scientist or researcher, Cynthia adopts a more personal view, so that with her we enter the fascinating and often dramatic events surrounding these most remarkable and complex of animals.