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| The Elephant's Secret Sense: The Hidden Life of the Wild Herds of Africa | 
| Author: Caitlin O'connell
Publisher: Free Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 452694
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0743284410
Dewey Decimal Number: 599.67415
EAN: 9780743284417
ASIN: 0743284410
Publication Date: March 20, 2007
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Condition: Ships immediately! Perfect and New! Has a publisher remainder mark. 2007 Hardcover.
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 A Powerful Read March 13, 2007
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
The Elephant's Secret Sense is a compelling journey of discovery, told with a clear and intimate voice that is rare in this genre of writing. Dropped into the middle of rural Africa straight out of graduate school, Caitlin O'Connell used her wits and the lessons learned from a tiny Hawaiian insect, to turn a difficult experience of keeping crop raiding elephants out of fields, into the discovery that elephants are communicating with seismic signals.
While this voyage of discovery, with its twists, turns and occasional brush with feisty lions kept me turning the pages, it was the inner layers of the book, about the complex and often difficult relationships between rural communities and elephants that gave the story its soul.
Caitlin O'Connell has spent thirteen long years working with elephants and it shows. Whether she was flying high above the free ranging elephant herds of southern Africa, or teaching a single female zoo elephant to communicate with her, she managed to share the unique sights, sounds and emotions of the moment that make a book like this so memorable.
Caitlin O'Connell finds that difficult balance between the scientific objectivity and compassion that is rare and much appreciated and I would encourage anyone with an interest in natural history and understanding our place in the world of animals to read this book.
An amazing journey... March 7, 2007
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I was very impressed with this book. Part of what Caitlin O'Connell experienced for long stretches of time is something the vast majority of us could not imagine. One particular chapter about the elephant Donna was a personal favorite, explaining in detail much of what this groundbreaking scientist (along with her husband Tim Rodwell) had to cope with in working with these gigantic subjects. Another chapter that detailed a African village experience was quite moving, especially as a dramatic event unfolded in a very unfamiliar, Third World setting. A must-read -- there are very few scientific, introspective books that have gone the necessary distance.
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