ELEPHANT DAYS AND NIGHTS: TEN YEARS WITH THE INDIAN ELEPHANT. By Raman Sukumar. Foreword by George B. Schaller.

1994 1st edition. 8vo (158 x 245mm). Ppxvi,184. Colour and b/w photographs, bibliography, end-paper maps. Black boards, spine titled in gilt.

Ecology of Indian elephants, including feeding habits, rogues and crop-raiders, reproduction, social organisation, seasonal cycles and ivory poaching". The author has been studying the life of wild elephants in southern India since 1980. This is the story of his work on elephants, of their ecology, social behaviour, interactions with people and the problems they currently face". This book, although new and unread, may be rather bumped. This is to be expected of books published in India and these books are not returnable for any reason related to condition. Chapters include: The problem; The land and the elephants; The renewal of life; A megavegetarian versus the vegetation; Raiders and rogues; Growth and family life; Seasonal rhythms; The ivory hunters; The march of time.