Cynthia Moss

Cynthia Moss (born 1940 in Ossining, New York) is an American conservationist, wildlife researcher and writer, who specialises in elephant behaviour.^[1][2] She has published several books including Portraits in the Wild: Animal Behaviour in East Africa (Hamish Hamilton 1979).

Life and work

Moss graduated at Smith College in Massachusetts in 1962, majoring in philosophy. She worked as a reporter for Newsweek, specialising in theatre and the dramatic arts.

However, while visiting Lake Manyara National Park in Tanzania 1967, she met leading elephant researcher Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton in Tanzania. The following year she quit her job at Newsweek to work with Douglas-Hamilton and in 1972, she started the now famous Amboseli Elephant Research Project at Amboseli National Park in Kenya.

Awards

• 2001 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

• Portraits in the Wild: Animal Behavior in East Africa, Hamilton, 1976, ISBN 9780241024539
• Elephant Memories: Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family, University of Chicago Press, 2000, ISBN 9780226542379
• Elephant woman: Cynthia Moss explores the world of elephants, Authors Laurence P. Pringle, Illustrated Cynthia Moss, Atheneum Books, 1997, ISBN 9780689801426

References

1. ^ Robinson, Simon. "Kenya's Elephant Team". Time magazine. February 28th, 2000.
2. ^ Holloway, M. (1994) Profile: Cynthia Moss – On the Trail of Wild Elephants, Scientific American 271(6), 48-50.

External links

• The Elephant Trust
• Elephants Encyclopedia

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