Elephants on the edge : what animals teach us about humanity /

Drawing on accounts from India to Africa, California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behavior, Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions, and lives of elephants.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bradshaw, G. A. (Gay A.), 1959- (Author)
Other Authors: Martin, Calvin (author of foreword.)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009].
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1npr32
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Calvin Luther Martin
  • The existential elephant
  • A delicate network
  • A strange kind of animal
  • Deposited in the bones
  • Bay boyz
  • Elephant on the couch : case study, E.M.
  • The sorrow of the cooking pot
  • The biology of forgiveness
  • Am I an elephant?
  • Speaking in tongues
  • Where does the soul go?
  • Beyond numbers
  • Epilogue: Quilt making
  • Appendix: Ten things you can do to help elephants.