The Elephant S Leg

Author : Blair Csuti,Eva L. Sargent,Ursula S. Bechert
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780470292129

Get Book

The Elephant's Foot by Blair Csuti,Eva L. Sargent,Ursula S. Bechert Pdf

Maintaining the healthy foot condition of captive Asian and African elephants is one of the most important yet most difficult tasks for zookeepers, veterinarians, and researchers. Recognizing the need for a convenient and comprehensive health care manual, Blair Csuti, Eva Sargent and Ursula Bechert present The Elephant's Foot. Born out of a national conference on elephant care and physiology, this book is backed by 46 of the foremost authorities on the subject. After a general overview of the elephant foot's anatomy and physiology, The Elephant's Foot leads practitioners through recognition, prevention, and treatment of a variety of foot problems. From nail infections to foot abcesses, readers will find this text contains solutions for most foot troubles with remedies or additional recommendations. This book will support anyone simply studying elephants or those working with elephants on a daily basis.

Author : Laurel Neme
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781338633481

Get Book

The Elephant's New Shoe by Laurel Neme Pdf

This sweet true story stars a tiny, orphaned elephant who was given another chance. When Chhouk, an Asian elephant calf, was found, he was alone, underweight, and had a severe foot injury. Conservationist Nick Marx of Wildlife Alliance rescued the baby elephant. With help from the Cambodian Forestry Administration, the Cambodian School of Prosthetics and Orthotics, and an elephant named Lucky, Nick nursed Chhouk back to health and made him an artificial foot. One of the first animals to ever be fitted with a prosthetic, Chhouk helped pioneer the technology -- and most importantly, was able to walk again!This true animal rescue story will satisfy animal lovers and capture the hearts of both young readers and their parents.

Author : Murray Fowler,Susan K. Mikota
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780470344118

Get Book

Biology, Medicine, and Surgery of Elephants by Murray Fowler,Susan K. Mikota Pdf

Elephants are possibly the most well-known members of the animal kingdom. The enormous size, unusual anatomy, and longevity of elephants have fascinated humans for millenia. Biology, Medicine, and Surgery of Elephants serves as a comprehensive text on elephant medicine and surgery. Based on the expertise of 36 scientists and clinical veterinarians, this volume covers biology, husbandry, veterinary medicine and surgery of the elephant as known today. Written by the foremost experts in the field Comprehensively covers both Asian and African elephants Complete with taxonomy, behavioral, geographical and systemic information Well-illustrated and organized for easy reference

Author : M. Jaynes
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781780997056

Get Book

Elephants Among Us by M. Jaynes Pdf

Born in the 1970s, Stoney the elephant spent his life traveling and performing with his family. In 1994, he was injured while working in Las Vegas. He died after a nearly year-long medical confinement in a storage barn behind a hotel. The pages within chronicle his short life and tell the complex story of the people who knew him and those who tried to save him. Stoney is the most important elephant you ve never heard of. Also within is the story of the elephant Big Mary, who in 1916 was hanged from a railroad derrick after killing a man in Tennessee. Here an effort is made to combine previous scholarship into a new considered retelling, with the elephant as the core of its focus. Big Mary died at the beginning of the twentieth century, Stoney at the end of it. Both performing elephants underwent disaster, and both can tell us something about ourselves.

Author : Sharon Pincott
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781770096493

Get Book

The Elephants and I by Sharon Pincott Pdf

An unplanned visit to South Africa's Kruger National Park changed Sharon Pincott's life as she knew it. She was a high-flying Information Technology specialist Down Under, but now she dreamed of working with Africa's wildlife. Eventually, she abandoned her life of privilege and luxury and moved to Zimbabwe - a country in turmoil - to live and work among elephants on land bordering Hwange National Park. It was a startling contrast to her former life. In time, Sharon formed extraordinary relationships with wild elephants, having learned to know them intimately. She treasured escapades with friends, both human and animal, in spectacular remote places. But, as she soon discovered first-hand, the beauty and wonder of wild Zimbabwe had a dark foreboding side. Snaring of wildlife was rife, and when land invaders claimed the area where Sharon's elephant friends roamed, she went into battle for their land and their lives - while fighting for her own wellbeing, in her homeland of choice.

Author : Susan Conklin Thompson
Publisher : Good Year Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781596472679

Get Book

Elephants are Wrinkly by Susan Conklin Thompson Pdf

Encourages children to touch and discover the world around them, explore textures, and learn fascinating facts about animals.

Author : Barbara Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Elephants
ISBN : 1844776999

Get Book

Elephants by Barbara Taylor Pdf

Author : Changaram S. Venugopal,Jacob V. Cheeran
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781525541513

Get Book

The Incredible Essence of Elephants by Changaram S. Venugopal,Jacob V. Cheeran Pdf

Can elephants cry? Why are grandmother elephants so important? How does an elephant grieve the death of a loved one? These are just of few of the many questions people have about elephants. The Incredible Essence of Elephants explores the fascinating and remarkable answers to these questions, and much, much more. With the expertise of two long-time veterinarians, this book offers insights into the origins of elephants; different types of elephants and their habitats; famous and influential elephants throughout history; the biology of elephants; human management and interference in elephants; and the striking similarities between the human and elephant behaviour, social development and connection, compassion, and grief. In this newly translated book with latest fresh topics, we can learn about one of the most endearing and sometimes misunderstood animals on our planet. Through examining how elephants’ habitats are threatened and the ways they are exploited by humans, we also learn about the difficult side of human nature in how we relate to elephants. Dr. Changaram Venugopal and Dr. Jacob V. Cheeran remind us of the complexities of the animal kingdom and the power of observation. Packed with first-hand experience and expert insights, this book is funny, informative, and thorough. The Incredible Essence of Elephants is comprehensive and enjoyable read for anyone interested in elephants.

Author : Konstantin Nossov,Konstantin S Nossov
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846038037

Get Book

War Elephants by Konstantin Nossov,Konstantin S Nossov Pdf

Elephants have been deployed as weapons for centuries, particularly in South and South-East Asia, where war elephants constituted the bulk of most armies in the region from antiquity right up to the 19th century. This book offers an insight into the incredible history of these 'living tanks,' focusing on the design of the equipment and armament that made them so terrifying. The author, Konstantin S Nossov, traces the history of war elephants, from their deployment against Alexander the Great's army at the battle of Gaugamela, through to their use in the 19th century by the armies of South-East Asia, analyzing the battle formation and tactics of war elephants in action and how these tactics developed.

Author : Thomas R. Trautmann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226264530

Get Book

Elephants & Kings by Thomas R. Trautmann Pdf

Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations—such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China—kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the conspicuous consumption of ivory—all of them tending toward the elephant’s extinction. The kings of India, however, as Thomas R. Trautmann shows in this study, found a use for elephants that actually helped preserve their habitat and numbers in the wild: war. Trautmann traces the history of the war elephant in India and the spread of the institution to the west—where elephants took part in some of the greatest wars of antiquity—and Southeast Asia (but not China, significantly), a history that spans 3,000 years and a considerable part of the globe, from Spain to Java. He shows that because elephants eat such massive quantities of food, it was uneconomic to raise them from birth. Rather, in a unique form of domestication, Indian kings captured wild adults and trained them, one by one, through millennia. Kings were thus compelled to protect wild elephants from hunters and elephant forests from being cut down. By taking a wide-angle view of human-elephant relations, Trautmann throws into relief the structure of India’s environmental history and the reasons for the persistence of wild elephants in its forests.

Author : Gary Haynes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521456916

Get Book

Mammoths, Mastodonts, and Elephants by Gary Haynes Pdf

This study uses the ecology and behaviour of modern elephants to create models for reconstructing the life and death of extinct mammoths and mastodons.

Author : Eric Dinerstein
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781368046947

Get Book

A Circle of Elephants by Eric Dinerstein Pdf

From the author of What Elephants Know, a 2017 ALA Notable Children's Book and the 2017 South Asia Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature award winner, comes this stunning companion novel about the complex relationship between people and nature and the harsh realities of life in the Borderlands of Nepal. Twelve-year-old Nandu lives in the newly established Royal Elephant Breeding Center on the edge of the jungle. Here, the King's elephants are to be raised under the protective watch of the stable. Nandu—along with his adoptive father Subba-sahib, his mentors, friends, and the rest of the elephant drivers—is tested by man and nature as earthquakes, drought, wild herds, and rumors of poachers threaten the Center. When Nandu's world is thrown into turmoil, so too is the world of Hira Prashad, the Center's powerful bull elephant. An unbreakable bond of brotherhood drives Nandu and Hira Prashad together as they struggle to maintain the delicate natural order of life in the Borderlands. Dinerstein's poetic prose and scientific expertise come together in this breathtaking tale that puts the reader on the frontlines of brutal conflicts and heartbreaking friendships.

Author : John M. Kistler
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803260040

Get Book

War Elephants by John M. Kistler Pdf

Elephants have fought in human armies for more than three thousand years. This is the largely forgotten tale of the credit they deserve and the sacrifices they endured.

Author : Rossiti Asihah Rashidi
Publisher : Oyez!Books
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9789670908045

Get Book

Siti the Elephant by Rossiti Asihah Rashidi Pdf

Siti the Elephant is a beautifully illustrated book in releastic style that brings the story right into the reader's heart. Siti is one of the three elephants currently residing in Zoo Negara. Before that she lived free in the wild. But as human beings take over more and more land space, wild animals like Siti the elephant are losing their homes. This book contains many facts about elephants, their way of life and why they are endangered. This is followed by a short story of the five blind men and the elephant. Truly a valuable and informative book to keep and cherish.

Author : Jenni Desmond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN : 1592702643

Get Book

The Elephant by Jenni Desmond Pdf

From Africa to Asia, the elephant makes its home. Light on their feet, despite their great weight, these magnificent creatures appear light and graceful because they're always walking on their tip-toes. They have excellent hearing and can detect the rumblings of other elephants from six miles away. And, just like humans being right handed or left handed, elephants can be right tusked or left tusked!