LEADER 04192nam 2200805Ia 450 001 9910780641403321 005 20230207230921.0 010 $a1-282-35283-0 010 $a9786612352836 010 $a0-300-15491-7 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300154917 035 $a(CKB)2430000000010743 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050045 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000294957 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11255424 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000294957 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10312678 035 $a(PQKB)10236095 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420530 035 $a(DE-B1597)485078 035 $a(OCoLC)1029835559 035 $a(OCoLC)1032692158 035 $a(OCoLC)1037912000 035 $a(OCoLC)1041977290 035 $a(OCoLC)1046609882 035 $a(OCoLC)1047009170 035 $a(OCoLC)1049618693 035 $a(OCoLC)1054879493 035 $a(OCoLC)994456988 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300154917 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420530 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10348425 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235283 035 $a(OCoLC)923594237 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000010743 100 $a20090408d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aElephants on the edge$b[electronic resource] $ewhat animals teach us about humanity /$fG. A. Bradshaw 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (352 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-12731-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tForeword -- $tPrologue -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tA Note on Terminology and Sources -- $t1 The Existential Elephant -- $t2 A Delicate Network -- $t3 A Strange Kind of Animal -- $t4 Deposited in the Bones -- $t5 Bad Boyz -- $t6 Elephant on the Couch: Case Study, E. M. -- $t7 The Sorrow of the Cooking Pot -- $t8 The Biology of Forgiveness -- $t9 Am I an Elephant? -- $t10 Speaking in Tongues -- $t11 Where Does the Soul Go? -- $t12 Beyond Numbers -- $tEpilogue: Quilt Making -- $tAppendix: Ten Things You Can Do to Help Elephants -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aDrawing 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 more than ten million to a few hundred thousand, leaving orphans bereft of the elders who would normally mentor them. As a consequence, traumatized elephants have become aggressive against people, other animals, and even one another; their behavior is comparable to that of humans who have experienced genocide, other types of violence, and social collapse. By exploring the elephant mind and experience in the wild and in captivity, Bradshaw bears witness to the breakdown of ancient elephant cultures.All is not lost. People are working to save elephants by rescuing orphaned infants and rehabilitating adult zoo and circus elephants, using the same principles psychologists apply in treating humans who have survived trauma. Bradshaw urges us to support these and other models of elephant recovery and to solve pressing social and environmental crises affecting all animals, human or not. 606 $aElephants$xBehavior 606 $aElephants$xPsychology 606 $aElephants$xEffect of human beings on 606 $aSocial behavior in animals 606 $aCaptive wild animals 606 $aPsychology, Comparative 615 0$aElephants$xBehavior. 615 0$aElephants$xPsychology. 615 0$aElephants$xEffect of human beings on. 615 0$aSocial behavior in animals. 615 0$aCaptive wild animals. 615 0$aPsychology, Comparative. 676 $a599.67/15 700 $aBradshaw$b G. A$g(Gay A.),$f1959-$01212776 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780641403321 996 $aElephants on the edge$93733276 997 $aUNINA