Amboseli - Dim Future for the Elephants

The East African (Nairobi)
17 March 2008
Rupi Mangat
Nairobi

AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK'S ELE-phants are probably the world's most famous. They are not only the longest studied elephants in the wild but also the longest studied wild mammals. Talk about being doubly famous.

"Elephants are extremely intelligent animals," says Dr Cynthia Moss, taking a morning break from shooting a 13-part Amboseli elephants "soap opera" for Animal Planet which will be screened on Discovery channel starting in 2009.

"You can never be bored watching them," says the scientist, who started the elephant research project way back in 1972. It goes without saying she knows most of them by sight.

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