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Parked on a grassy bank in her 15-year-old, blue-green Land Rover, elephant researcher Cynthia Moss peers through her binoculars at a group of females and calves 200 ft. in front of us. It is late afternoon, and Moss and I have driven from her camp in Kenya's Amboseli National Park to the eastern edge of nearby Longinye swamp. Our job: to count and identify the elephants as observers in an airplane estimate numbers from above. Behind us, across the border in Tanzania, looms the hulking mass of Africa's highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, its snow-capped...
...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 little," she says. "He's just practicing." After a few minutes, a 10-year-old female elephant walks toward us. She plops in front of the car and uses her trunk to hurl dust over her back. Crossing her back legs, she leans forward as if to kneel. Her tusks...
...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 Africa while traveling there in 1967 and moved a year later to Kenya, where she worked on other elephant projects before setting up her own in 1972. Since then, without formal scientific training, she has learned more about the family structure, life cycle and behavior of elephants than perhaps anyone...
...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 be made into jewelry and piano keys. The testimony of Moss and others stirred outrage that led to an international ban on the free trade of ivory. "Before we started our studies, people felt elephants were there to be used in the way man thought best," says Moss. "But the more...
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