An Elephant in the Room: The Science and Well-being of Elephants in Captivity

Debra L. Forthman

Tufts Center for Animals and Public Policy, 2009 - Animal welfare - 315 pages

About the author

Debra Forthman, Ph.D., is an Animal Behavior Society Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist and former director of Field Conservation at Zoo Atlanta. She is President of Animal Behavior Consulting Services, Inc. and a Senior Research Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology?s Center for Conservation and Behavior. She received her doctorate in psychology from UCLA and is the author of numerous articles and book chapters addressing theoretical and applied animal behavior.

Bibliographic information

• Title: An Elephant in the Room: The Science and Well-being of Elephants in Captivity
• Editor: Debra L. Forthman
• Contributor: Debra L. Forthman
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Tufts Center for Animals and Public Policy, 2009
• ISBN: 0615229840, 9780615229843
• Length: 315 pages