Elephants

Elephants: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (with special emphasis on their behavior and intelligence)

Weeks 1-5 of GIS 3991 (Interdisciplinary core Seminar)

Instructor: Moti Nissani

A painting by an Asian elephant

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Instructor’s Contact Information
Class Syllabus/Schedule and Exercises for Elephant Unit
Carrington’s Preface (not available online)
Class Project: Interdisciplinary Elephant Paper
Media Segment (of same class)--Student Papers: I. Coleman A. Young

Ramkali, My Elephant (Geeta Khadka)

The Elephant Child (Rudyard Kipling)

Moti Guj (Rudyard Kipling)

The Blind Men and the Elephant (John Godfrey Saxe)

Creative Thinking in Action: I. The Raven (Nissani)

Elephant Ear (Joan Aiken—not available online)

Nature of Science Example: The Four-Tusked Elephant (Armand Denis—not online)

Facts about Elephants

Elephants (Britannica)

Elephant anecdotes (Nissani; forthcoming)

Creative Thinking in Action: II. The Elephant (forthcoming)

Elephants: A Partial Bibliography

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