大象是一个关键物种，几千年来一直是南非茂密森林神奇的一部分。这本书重点介绍了Knysna大象公园的历史和工作。Knysna大象公园是南非领先的大象研究机构，25年来已成为40多头大象的家园。不幸的是，克尼什纳大象所有的神秘感都被简化为一头活着的大象。
本书探讨了广泛的主题，涵盖了大象与游客互动的影响，大象如何从创伤中恢复，甚至与人类医疗保健的相关性。著名的大象研究人员解释了大象大脑的雄伟，它拥有最大的颞叶，专门用于交流、语言、空间记忆和认知。因此，这本书强调了偷猎对这些温和巨人的威胁，这几乎迫使它们灭绝。也许如果人类注意到大象象征着我们与自然的关系，我们就可以从中吸取关于人类自身的重要教训。
Elephants: Up Close and Personal
Elephants are a keystone species and have been a part of the magic of the thickly forested land of South Africa for millennia. This book focuses on the history and work of Knysna Elephant Park, a leading South African elephant research facility that has been home to more than 40 elephants in 25 years. Unfortunately, all the mystique of the Knysna elephant has been reduced to a single elephant left alive.
Exploring a wide range of topics, this book covers the impact of elephants’ interactions with tourists, how they recover from trauma and even their relevance in human healthcare. Renowned elephant researchers explain the majesty of the elephant brain, which has the largest temporal lobe devoted to communication, language, spatial memory and cognition. To this effect, the book emphasizes the threat of poaching to these gentle giants, which has almost forced them to extinction. Perhaps if humans pay attention to how elephants symbolize our relationship with nature, we can learn important lessons about humanity itself.
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