Jane Goodall's Animal World, Elephants

An introduction to elephants, majestic, intelligent residents of Africa and Asia.

JANE GOODALL was born in London on April 3, 1934, and grew up in Bournemouth, on the southern coast of England. In 1960, she began studying chimpanzees in the wild in Gombe, Tanzania. After receiving her doctorate in ethology at Cambridge University, Dr. Goodall founded the Gombe Stream Research Center for the study of chimpanzees and baboons. In 1977, she established the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation to promote animal research throughout the world. She has written three books for adults, including the bestseller In the Shadow of Man, and three books for children, including the recent My Life With the Chimpanzees and The Chimpanzee Family Book.

LESLIE MACGUIRE is a former children's book editor and the author of over a hundred books for children, including Growing Up in Nature and Animal Helpers. She lives in southern California, where she is a full-time writer.