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A review by bybookandbone
Elephants: Birth, Death, & Family in the Lives of the Giants by Hannah Mumby
5.0
I'm delighted that my local library has a copy of this audiobook. Hannah Mumby's memoir has just enough of herself, the elephants she was lucky enough to study and the science behind it all.
I love that she mentioned studies by other people and their relevance as well as the struggles she had nailing down what she was studying.
She compares elephant lives to our own without trying to pin them into an anthro-box. I learned about elephant societies and how they intertwine with ours in different ways across different countries.
I like how Mumby doesn't shy away from the less flattering parts of data collection, conservation or even her own discomfort with it.
A fantastic, very personal scientific memoir.
I love that she mentioned studies by other people and their relevance as well as the struggles she had nailing down what she was studying.
She compares elephant lives to our own without trying to pin them into an anthro-box. I learned about elephant societies and how they intertwine with ours in different ways across different countries.
I like how Mumby doesn't shy away from the less flattering parts of data collection, conservation or even her own discomfort with it.
A fantastic, very personal scientific memoir.