Entertaining Elephants Peter L. Rudnytsky James Madison

James Madison

For how long can we go on neutralising the laws of natural selection

Charting its historical conditions and the expansive contexts of its emergence

the book discusses how encouraging naturally occurring desistance processes

While focusing on the practical

Entertaining Elephants Peter L. Rudnytsky James MadisonConsider the career of an enduring if controversial icon of American entertainment: the genial circus elephant. In Entertaining Elephants Susan Nance examines elephant behaviordrawing on the scientific literature of animal cognition, learning, and communicationsto offer a study of elephants as actors (rather than objects) in American circus entertainment between 1800 and 1940. By developing a deeper understanding of animal behavior, Nance asserts, we