Elephants: Birth, Death and Family in the Lives of the Giants

Elephants are as unique as people. They can be clever and curious or headstrong and impulsive, shy or sociable. Learn to know them as individuals as well as a species in this evocative account of years spent studying elephant behaviour in the wild.

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Hannah Mumby is an Assistant Professor at the School of Biological Sciences and Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong. She was a Fellow at Pembroke College the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge and at the College for Life Sciences at the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin. She leads the Applied Behavioural Ecology and Conservation lab and conducts fieldwork elephants in Nepal, South Africa and across elephant range countries; work for which she won the prestigious Christopher Barnard Outstanding New Investigator Award

Hannah is also actively involved with conservation efforts and assists with collaring operations, advising on captive elephant living conditions and outreach work with local communities. She talks about elephants on TV and on the radio, as well as in schools and universities.