Hannah Mumby
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Hannah Mumby

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The short version of me is that I'm more comfortable with animals than people. And I have a particular affinity with elephants.

The long version is this:

I am a huge nerd. This led me to become a behavioural and evolutionary ecologist. I am also a conservation scientist because I care. I am currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong and Branco Weiss – Society in Science Fellow through the ETH Zurich. I was previously at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge as Drapers’ Company Research Fellow at Pembroke College. I was also lucky to be a College for Life Sciences Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin and a Fulbright Scholar at Colorado State University. I lead the Applied Behaviour, Ecology and Conservation lab. We conduct fieldwork with elephants and other mammals in Nepal, Hong Kong, Southern Africa and some other beautiful places.

Although I love talking and writing about elephants, the best way for me to learn is to watch them. With the team, I collect behavioural observations, track elephant movements, collect dung to extract genetic and hormonal data and take lots of photos to assess body condition, individual identity and reproductive status. We try to understand elephants by interviewing people, doing behaviour experiments and taking samples. I'm ten years in and I am still learning a lot! I'm is also actively involved with conservation efforts and have assisted with collaring operations, translocating elephants and outreach work.

I have talked about elephants on TV and radio, in schools and universities to a wide range of audiences in India, Myanmar, Thailand, Japan, the UK, Germany, the US and beyond. I live in Hong Kong.

My book Elephants Birth, Life, and Death in the World of the Giants, is a lyrically written and deeply personal account of several years of field research, in which I describe my own elephant encounters, explore the most up-to-date discoveries about the lives of these gentle giants.
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    • Elephants

    • Birth, Death and Family in the Lives of the Giants
    • By: Hannah Mumby
    • Narrated by: Gemma Lawrence
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-2020
    • Language: English
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