'Giants Of The Monsoon Forest' Explores The Lives Of Working Elephants In Asia
Geographer Jacob Shell describes the lives of these elephants of mountainous Myanmar and northeastern India that haul timber or transport people with details at once compelling and disturbing.
Working elephants of mountainous Myanmar and northeastern India haul timber or transport people by day, then return to the forest at night.
In his new book titled for these elephants, Giants Of The Monsoon Forest: Living And Working With Elephants, geographer Jacob Shell describes the lives of these animals with details at once compelling and disturbing.
Taken from the wild in order to assist human labor, these highly intelligent Asian elephants experience great disruption to their individual lives. Shell views their plight with sympathy but, in the end, subscribes to the view that future conservation of the Asian elephant may well depend on just such an
