Elephant Days and Nights: Ten Years with the Indian Elephant

By Raman Sukumar

Book Overview

Raman Sukumar is a leading naturalist and a key member of 'Project Elephant', a plan set up by the Indian government to protect the elephant along the lines of 'Project Tiger'. This book is a highly readable account of his experiences during ten years of research on the Indian elephant. Anecdotal, but at the same time thoroughly sound in terms of its scholarship, the book looks at the relationship of the Indian elephant to the people with which it shares the land, and the elephants' effects on the environment and the ecology of southern India. It also gives a full account of elephant behavior and the effects of environmental degradation and ivory poaching. This highly readable account will prove fascinating reading for everyone interested in the dramatic story of the Indian elephant and the fight to protect its endangered habitats.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195633482
• ISBN13: 9780195633481
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Elephantine Fun!!

True to its title, this book describes the experiences of well known elephant biologist and conservationalist Raman Sukumar's doctoral project. Packed with great anecdotal and biological information about the normal life of asian elephants, it makes great reading for any reader. It will delight the nature lover, as Raman relives ten long years of trailing jumbos in the verdant forests of south india. Particularly interesting is the way raman fights stubborn gadgets, shoestring budgets, bureaucracy, and sometimes elephants themselves to compile what became one of the comprehensive projects on elephant demographics, habit-habitat, conflicts with people and poachers. Must read for young people and biologists.