Cynthia Moss est une conservatrice et chercheuse dévouée spécialisée dans les éléphants d'Afrique. Le travail de sa vie tourne autour de l'étude des structures familiales, des cycles de vie et des comportements des populations d'éléphants au Kenya. Grâce à plus de quatre décennies d'observation méticuleuse, elle offre des aperçus sans précédent sur les vies complexes de ces créatures magnifiques. Ses contributions sont vitales pour la compréhension et la protection des éléphants.
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.