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A year-old male calf is playing with a long, stringy tuft of grass. He opens his mouth as if to eat it, but his trunk moves in the wrong direction, and the grass pokes him in the eye. Moss laughs. "He doesn't want to eat. He's too...
Moss, 59, never tires of watching elephants. To her, they're much more fascinating than the Broadway players she used to watch decades ago as a theater reporter for Newsweek. Born in Ossining, N.Y., she had graduated from Smith College with a philosophy major. But she fell in love with...
In books like Elephant Memories and films such as Echo of the Elephants, Moss has told the world what she knows about her favorite animals--and helped ensure their survival. As recently as a decade ago, they were being slaughtered wholesale by poachers, who ripped out magnificent ivory tusks to...
But the battle to save elephants will never end so long as humans value ivory. African countries have been collecting tusks from animals who died naturally or were culled from herds, and last year the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species allowed one-time sales from some stockpiles. In...
Moss's mission as an elephant advocate often takes her away from the Amboseli fieldwork she loves so much. She spends about three-quarters of her time writing, giving lectures in the U.S. and Britain and raising money, much of which comes from the African Wildlife Foundation in Washington. An...