![]() ![]() I enjoyed hearing about the resurgence of other animals in the area once the elephants were roaming. ![]() Illustrating their adeptness and intelligence, he spends a lot of time discussing how they test fencing and even sadly, how they used the ostracized bull to force their way through without being electrocuted. I was saddened to learn that he passed in 2012, but tearful when the postscript revealed the elephants' response and their subsequent visits every time a new elephant is born. It's about the atrocities of poaching and trophy hunting and the inspirational people whose life is to begin to stabilize and rebuild African elephants' population and Anthony did just that. It's about birth and death, compassion and science. ![]() The short chapters move the story pretty quickly but by the second half after the hubbub of moving them and their first breakout settles, it's about the beauty of the mundane. This is Lawrence Anthony's story of tending to a herd of "troublesome" elephants on his reserve in Thula Thula in South Africa. ![]() I am obviously impartial as I have visited Africa in my twenties specifically to see wild elephants because they are nature's most precious animal to me and their whole being and behavior fascinates me. I adore this book for what it is and what it stands for. ![]()
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