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Published by Pymble: Harper Collins Publishers, 2001., 2001
ISBN 10: 0732269539ISBN 13: 9780732269531
Seller: Andrew Isles Natural History Books, Prahran, VIC, Australia
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Octavo, paperback,300 pp.,photographs. The astonishing Elephant is an unabashed celebration of these mysterious creatures, whose closest living relatives are the dugong and the hyrax. While the author admits elephants can pose particular dangers to unwary humans (she recounts tales of circus trainers of her acquaintance, some of whom fell in action), they are too often the victims in any interaction with people. The elephant's fortunes have long been declining: where only a few thousand years ago several species roamed the earth, by 1980 the combined wild populations in Africa and Asia numbered fewer than 100,000 individuals.