Cynthia Moss je americká ochranářka a badatelka, která se specializuje na africké slony. Její celoživotní dílo spočívá ve studiu rodinné struktury, životního cyklu a chování slonů v Keni. Díky svému dlouholetému výzkumu přináší jedinečný vhled do složitého života těchto majestátních zvířat. Její práce slouží jako základ pro pochopení a ochranu slonů.
Cynthia Moss has spent 13 years in the Amboseli National Park in Kenya, and is currently Director of their Elephant Research Project. She has constantly observed one particular family of elephants, and this book details objectively, yet movingly, all aspects of their behaviour.
The elephants of Amboseli park in southern Kenya have been the subject of a unique study for many years. This book, which covers a period of 18 months, is written in the form of a journal which documents the saga of a particular family of elephants whose lives have become central to that of their observer, Cynthia Moss. Far from taking the formal and conventional approach of scientist or researcher, Cynthia adopts a more personal view, so that with her we enter the fascinating and often dramatic events surrounding these most remarkable and complex of animals.