Elephants and ethics, toward a morality of coexistence, edited by Christen Wemmer and Catherine A. Christen ; foreword by John Seidensticker
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Elephants and ethics, toward a morality of coexistence, edited by Christen Wemmer and Catherine A. Christen ; foreword by John Seidensticker
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
Elephants and ethics
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bibliography
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173182396
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edited by Christen Wemmer and Catherine A. Christen ; foreword by John Seidensticker
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toward a morality of coexistence
Table of contents
Introduction : Never forgetting the importance of ethical treatment of elephants / Christen Wemmer and Catherine A. Christen -- Elephants in time and space : evolution and ecology / Raman Sukumar -- Personhood, memory, and elephant management / Gary Varner -- Elephant sociality and complexity : the scientific evidence / Joyce H. Poole and Cynthia J. Moss -- Elephants, ethics, and history / Nigel Rothfels -- Pain, stress, and suffering in elephants : what is the evidence and how can we measure it? / Janine L. Brown, Nadja Wielebnowski and Jacob V. Cheeran -- Elephants and people in India : historical patterns of capture and management / Dhriti K. Lahiri Choudhury -- Carrots and sticks, people and elephants : rank, domination, and training / John Lehnhardt and Marie Galloway -- Canvas to concrete : elephants and the circus-zoo relationship / Michael D. Kreger -- Why circuses are unsuited to elephants / Lori Alward -- View from the big top : why elephants belong in North American circuses / Dennis Schmitt -- The challenges of meeting the needs of captive elephants / Jane Garrison -- Most zoos do not deserve elephants / David Hancocks -- Zoos as responsible stewards of elephants / Michael Hutchins, Brandie Smith and Mike Keele -- Can we assess the needs of elephants in zoos? Can we meet the needs of elephants in zoos? / Jill D. Mellen, Joseph C.E. Barber and Gary W. Miller -- Giants in chains : history, biology, and preservation of Asian elephants in captivity / Fred Kurt, Khyne U Mar and Marion E. Garaï -- Restoring interdependence between people and elephants : a Sri Lankan case study / Lalith Seneviratne and Greg D. Rossel -- Sumatran elephants in crisis : time for change / Susan K. Mikota, Hank Hammatt and Yudha Fahrimal -- Human-elephant conflicts in Africa : who has the right of way? / Winnie Kiiru -- Playing elephant god : ethics of managing wild African elephant populations / Ian Whyte and Richard Fayrer-Hosken -- Toward an ethic of intimacy : touring and trophy hunting for elephants in Africa / Rebecca Hardin -- The ethics of global enforcement : Zimbabwe and the politics of the ivory trade / Rosaleen Duffy
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