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10 best books like Among the Elephants (Iain Douglas-Hamilton): The Spotted Sphinx, Elephant Dance, Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People, The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness, Elephant Memories: Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family, The Elephant's Secret Sense: The Hidden Life of the Wild Herds of Africa, Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer, All My Patients are Under the Bed: Memoirs of a Cat Doctor, Mindfield: How Brain Science is Changing Our World, Silent Thunder: In the Presence of Elephants

The Spotted Sphinx
AuthorJoy Adamson
ISBN0151847959
Joy Adamson, world-famous for her books about Elsa the lioness, has a new and enthralling story to tell. Its heroine is Pippa, an elegant, affectionate but enigmatic cheetah - the spotted sphinx.
"Mrs. Adamson is confirmed as one of the most remarkable women of her times... I believe The Spotted...
Elephant Dance
AuthorTammie Matson
ISBN1405039191
It's the middle of the night in the Namibian desert when zoologist Tammie Matson wakes with a start to find two elephants standing beside her tiny tent. She makes a promise: "If you just let me survive tonight I will give up Africa. I'll give it all up. Just don't let them stand on me."

It's not a promise...
Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People
AuthorMark Owens
ISBN0618872507
In this riveting real-life adventure, Mark and Delia Owens tell the dramatic story of their last years in Africa, fighting to save elephants, villagers, and -- in the end -- themselves. The award-winning zoologists and pioneering conservationists describe their work in the remote and ruggedly beautiful...
The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness
AuthorDelia Owens
ISBN0395680905
I really wanted to love this book. I tried. The information and the story of what these two conservationists have done is amazing, however the overly flowery descriptions and romanticized views of Africa almost drowned out the reason for the book. In North Lunagwa National Park in Zambia the elephants...
Elephant Memories: Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family
AuthorCynthia Moss
ISBN0226542378
Cynthia Moss has studied the elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park for over twenty-seven years. Her long-term research has revealed much of what we now know about these complex and intelligent animals. Here she chronicles the lives of the members of the T families led by matriarchs Teresia,...
The Elephant's Secret Sense: The Hidden Life of the Wild Herds of Africa
AuthorCaitlin O'Connell
ISBN0743284410
This book was not all I hoped for. Although the description of the author's life and how she studies the animals is quite interesting, the manner in which she told the story lost me. I thought in the beginning it was going to be a clear goal - discovering new information about the communication of the animals...
Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer
AuthorMireya Mayor
ISBN1426207212
A quick examination of her roots, and one may never have guessed that Mireya Mayor would become the woman she is today. Yet, against all odds, this self-professed former "girly girl" daughter of overprotective Cuban immigrants blossomed from NFL cheerleader to Fulbright Scholar to field scientist...
All My Patients are Under the Bed: Memoirs of a Cat Doctor
AuthorLouis J. Camuti
ISBN0671554506
Here in paperback is America's favorite and most heartwarming cat book by the beloved cat doctor Dr. Louis J. Camuti. For sixty years he treated thousands of cats and mad so many house calls he became known as "the Albert Schweitzer of the cat world."

In recollections both funny and tender, Dr....
Mindfield: How Brain Science is Changing Our World
AuthorLone Frank
ISBN1851686495
The age of the brain is upon us. The realisation that the fundamental building blocks of our world consist of brains rather than nations, electrons, or even DNA is ushering in a ‘neurocentric’ revolution, challenging how we think about everything from morality to the stock market, and how we view...
Silent Thunder: In the Presence of Elephants
AuthorKaty Payne
ISBN0140285962
A natural history rich in observation of the animal world and how humans participate in it, Silent Thunder is also a passionate story of scientist Katy Payne's spiritual quest as she turns a keen eye on her role in this world. Starting with the story of her revolutionary discovery that elephants use infrasonic...
Lads Before the Wind: Diary of a Dolphin Trainer
AuthorKaren Pryor
ISBN1890948047
This isn't a training book so much as it is memoirs of training and related events. Karen Pryor is a noted behavioral biologist who helped bring the technology of "clicker training" (animal-friendly operant conditioning) from the psychology sciences into the popular pet training market.

The...
Wildlife Wars: My Fight to Save Africa's Natural Treasures
AuthorRichard E. Leakey
ISBN0312303343
In this engrossing memoir, one of the most controversial, influential, and inspirational figures in African politics today gives the full story of his crusade to save Kenya's natural resources, and specifically the African elephant--a crusade that set him against internal corruption, poverty,...
My Pride and Joy: An Autobiography
AuthorGeorge Adamson
ISBN0671624970
I absolutely love George Adamson and have read all his books and watched the documentaries. His story made a life changing decision for me....to become a wildlife Vet and conservationist. His work is admired and inspiring. I can't recommend this book enough...all of them by him. It's a shame how he dies,...
Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind
AuthorDorothy L. Cheney
ISBN0226102432
In 1838 Charles Darwin jotted in a notebook, “He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.” Baboon Metaphysics is Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth’s fascinating response to Darwin’s challenge.
           
Cheney and Seyfarth...
The Company of Wolves
AuthorPeter Steinhart
ISBN0679743871
As wolves return to their old territory in Yellowstone National Park, their presence is reawakening passions as ancient as their tangled relations with human beings. This authoritative and eloquent book coaxes the wolf out from its camouflage of myth and reveals the depth of its kinship with humanity,...
The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience
AuthorWangari Maathai
Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, Kenya in 1940. In 1960, she won a Kennedy scholarship to study in America and earned a master's degree in biology from the University of Pittsburgh and became the first woman in East Africa to earn a Ph.D.

Returning to Kenya in 1966, Wangari Maathai was shocked...
Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us about Humanity
AuthorG.A. Bradshaw
ISBN0300127316
Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behavior, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions, and lives of elephants. Wars, starvation, mass culls, poaching, and habitat loss have reduced elephant numbers from...
Golden Bats & Pink Pigeons
AuthorGerald Durrell
ISBN0671507575
On this speck of volcanic soil in the middle of a vast sea, a complete, unique and peaceful world was created slowly and carefully. It waited there for hundreds of thousands of years for an annihilating invasion of voracious animals for which it was totally unprepared, a cohort of rapacious beasts led...
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