Cynthia Moss (born 1940 in Ossining, New York) is an American conservationist, wildlife researcher and writer, who specialises in elephant behaviour.[1][2] She has published several books including Portraits in the Wild: Animal Behaviour in East Africa (Hamish Hamilton 1979).
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Moss graduated at Smith College in Massachusetts in 1962, majoring in philosophy. She worked as a reporter for Newsweek, specialising in theatre and the dramatic arts.
However, while visiting Lake Manyara National Park in Tanzania 1967, she met leading elephant researcher Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton in Tanzania. The following year she quit her job at Newsweek to work with Douglas-Hamilton and in 1972, she started the now famous Amboseli Elephant Research Project at Amboseli National Park in Kenya.