Elephant Woman : Cynthia Moss Explores the World of Elephants

From School Library Journal
Grade 4-8. Cynthia Moss will fascinate young readers. A scientist without formal training, she entered her field through the back door and is now a pre-eminent researcher of elephant behavior and a compassionate conservationist. Pringle not only writes of Moss's work in Kenya's Amboseli National Park, but also tells the story of a woman who, despite adversity, has reached the heights of her field. Physical and behavioral information about African elephants is seamlessly woven into the narrative. How researchers live and conduct their work?and why it is important?become clear as Pringle describes the subject's observations of elephant family life. Moss's full-color photographs add wonderful detail and atmosphere to the text. Readers will find many more of them in Moss's own books, including Little Big Ears (S & S, 1996). Elephants are extraordinary animals, Cynthia Moss is a great role model, and Pringle has brought them together in an exciting presentation.?Susan Oliver, Tampa-Hillsborough Public Library System, FLCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Scientific American Explorations
Cynthia Moss has spent 25 years studying elephant families in Kenya. This biography, for ages 10 and up, also tells about her research: the life and society of the world's largest land mammals, from birth to adulthood and what is being done to protect them.

From Kirkus Reviews
A biography of Moss, whose dedication to elephant research pegs her as a true scientist, despite her lack of formal training. Pringle (Everybody Has a Bellybutton, p. 1227, etc.) profiles Moss; her eye-opening research on elephants changed the way people view them, and brought them protection from poachers. Although this book focuses mainly on Moss's life, it provides some information on elephants, too: Moss observed how elephants survived droughts, and how the wisdom of a female matriarch could benefit an entire elephant family. Clear full-color photographs show the elephants and their human observers. This is an inspirational book for those interested in animal-related vocations; for serious research on elephants, Moss's own books may be more suitable. (map, further reading, index) (Biography. 10-12) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Card catalog description
A biography of Cynthia Moss, world-renowned elephant researcher in Kenya's Amboseli National Park, illustrated with her own photographs.


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Gr 4-8--Cynthia Moss will fascinate young readers. A scientist without formal training, she entered her field through the back door and is now a pre-eminent researcher of elephant behavior and a compassionate conservationist. Pringle not only writes of Moss's work in Kenya's Amboseli National Park, but also tells the story of a woman who, despite adversity, has reached the heights of her field. Physical and behavioral information about African elephants is seamlessly woven into the narrative. How researchers live and conduct their work--and why it is important--become clear as Pringle describes the subject's observations of elephant family life. Moss's full-color photographs add wonderful detail and atmosphere to the text. Readers will find many more of them in Moss's own books, including Little Big Ears (S & S, 1996). Elephants are extraordinary animals, Cynthia Moss is a great role model, and Pringle has brought them together in an exciting presentation.--Susan Oliver, Tampa-Hillsborough Public Library System, FL


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