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A woman and her elephants
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Cynthia Moss, a reporter turned researcher, has been studying the animals in Africa for almost four decades. She speaks of their social life, mating, threats and smarts.
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times
June 27 2010
Cynthia Moss was a young reporter for Newsweek magazine when she took an extended trip to East Africa in 1967 and became enamored of the country. While visiting Lake Manyara National Park in Tanzania, she met British zoologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton, who later founded Save the Elephants, and became his research assistant. In 1972, she founded the Amboseli Elephant Research Project at Amboseli National Park in Kenya and has been working there ever since, studying a herd of about 1,500 elephants. She spoke with The Times on a recent visit to Los Angeles.
The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-cynthia-moss-20100625,0,7206720.story
Visit latimes.com at http://www.latimes.com
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A woman and her elephants
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Cynthia Moss, a reporter turned researcher, has been studying the animals in Africa for almost four decades. She speaks of their social life, mating, threats and smarts.
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times
June 27 2010
Cynthia Moss was a young reporter for Newsweek magazine when she took an extended trip to East Africa in 1967 and became enamored of the country. While visiting Lake Manyara National Park in Tanzania, she met British zoologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton, who later founded Save the Elephants, and became his research assistant. In 1972, she founded the Amboseli Elephant Research Project at Amboseli National Park in Kenya and has been working there ever since, studying a herd of about 1,500 elephants. She spoke with The Times on a recent visit to Los Angeles.
The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-cynthia-moss-20100625,0,7206720.story
Visit latimes.com at http://www.latimes.com
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