The Secret Life of Elephants The Secret Life of Elephants

They care for friend and family like few other animals.

Like us, they feel emotion.

They may even be aware of their own mortality.

Yet there's still so very much we don't know about elephants.

Here in Northern Kenya, the Save the Elephants

team is making extraordinary discoveries about their lives.

They're facing big challenges.

There's continuing conflict between people and elephants

and the death of a bull called Mungu remains a mystery.

The dry season arrived, bringing desperate times for all the elephants.

A baby elephant called Breeze might not have survived.

We'll follow these dramatic stories alongside the team,

as they reveal the Secret Life Of Elephants.

Samburu lies in the arid north of Kenya.

For over two months, the reserve has been in the grip of severe drought.

The elephants were forced to leave in search of water.

Now, the rains have come.

The river is flowing through the heart of the reserve once again.

The land is turning green and soon the elephants will be back.

David Daballen is a field researcher with the Save the Elephants team.

He's out looking for a very special baby elephant.

Breeze was born nine months ago.

Since her first day of life, David's watched her growing up.

But her family, the Winds, left the reserve with the other elephants during the drought.

It was a very worrying factor when Breeze left the park.

She left when she was quite young

and you know, she didn't have that experience of leaving the park.

Outside the reserve, food can be hard to find and elephants risk conflict with people.

David can only hope that Breeze makes it safely back.

The research team are based at a field camp in the reserve.

Everyone is looking forward to the elephants coming back.

The team's aim is to give elephants a future in Africa,

through researching and protecting them.

Founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton has studied elephants for over 40 years

and he has a special interest in pioneering technology.

I started in 1969 with simple devices that you put onto an elephant,

and they bleeped, sent out a radio signal, and you could track it down.

Well, we still do that,

but with GPS technology, we can now get the collar to receive signals

from satellites that will pinpoint that elephant within ten metres.

There we are...

Today, there's news.

The collars are showing that a few elephants are heading back to the reserve.

There's Jerusalem, Anastasia and Neptune.

-All of them are just in the park.

-Fantastic.

Not all the elephants have collars,

so the team need to see who else is with them.

Could Breeze and her family be back?

David's heading out with Iain's daughter, Saba Douglas-Hamilton.

She grew up in Africa and has a lifelong passion for elephants.

Out in the reserve, everything has changed.

The elephants are back.

Herd upon herd are converging on the reserve and they're making their presence felt.

After such a long absence, Saba and David are delighted to see them.

Oh, look, we're getting all sorts of groups meeting up.

All the elephants are given names and they need to work out who's here.

Look at this.

All the elephants are back.

Look at the hardwoods, look at the flowers.

Wait, hold on, is that Ebony there?

That is Ebony.

Just like people, each elephant has a unique personality.

To understand their lives, the team get to know every one.

-It's like seeing old friends, isn't it?

-Yep.

There are some elephants here I haven't seen for a very long time.

The herds of females are gathering here for the most important date in the elephant's calendar,

the breeding season.

But not every elephant will have made it through the drought

and it's the youngsters that are most vulnerable.

My big interest will be checking all the calves, how many survived

and who did we lose here, that's very important.

David hasn't found the calf he really wants to see, Breeze.

David needs to intensify his search.

He can recognise 600 individual elephants,

but there's no sign of Breeze and her family, the Winds.

Over a third of baby elephants can die in their first year

and all David can do is check the herds and hope Breeze makes it back.

Most of the females are back,

but what about the big bulls?

Back at camp, there's a new way the team can find them.

MOBILE PHONE BLEEPS

Hah!

Esidai, a collared bull elephant, has sent a text to Iain's phone.

-Where's he been?

-Let me just get the Google up,

have a look at this and see what he's been up to.

Here we go, he's been wandering around in quite a wide-ranging pattern.

Eight months ago, the team collared Esidai in a challenging darting operation.

Collar! I just need the collar, please!

His collar sends a text when he enters or leaves the reserve

and they can track his position on computer.

He's lured back because there are lots of females and lots of food.

Yes, he's come back

and he's roaming with a hungry heart, looking for ladies.

-I bet he is.

-Yes.

It's a good sign, it means the boys are coming back, the big bulls.

They will be. Why don't you go and look?

I'd love to, he's probably with some other bulls.

-Now you know where to look.

-Right, Archers Post.

To find Esidai, Saba must travel to the extreme eastern edge of the reserve.

David, do you copy? I've just come across four bulls,

I've got Esidai here and his collar looks twisted.

Esidai and the other bulls are six-tonne giants,

the biggest land animals on earth.

They're feeding, building their strength to be in peak condition for the breeding season.

Soon, they'll be ready to move in on the herds of females.

Now what we are seeing now is the larger bulls

preparing themselves, readying themselves for that moment when everything switches,

and their hormones start flooding through their bodies and they go and hunt for mates.

They're on the top of that wave

and it's about to break over the

reserve, so it's going to be a very exciting time in the next few weeks.

Since her childhood, Saba has had several close encounters with elephants.

But working with big bulls is different.

They can be extremely dangerous,

especially in the breeding season.

As Daniel Lentipo, a researcher on the team, found out.

When the bull lost the fight

we thought he was running away from us and he went and came on behind,

and attacked the car from the bumper,

flipped it upside down three different times.

This is what happened when Daniel's truck was attacked by a bull called Rommel.

Saba wants to hear about Daniel's terrifying experience

and sitting inside the wrecked car brings it all home.

So Rommel was fighting with Abe Lincoln, two big bulls,

and you were watching and then all of a sudden Rommel attacks you?

-Yeah.

-So you had tusks literally coming up here right behind your head?

Yeah, right, one of the tusks was hitting right here.

Oh, my God.

It happened six years ago, but the horrific attack is still fresh in Daniel's mind.

When the car hit on the ground, the whole windshield was gone

and the whole glasses were covered into me and George

and we were lying on the dashboard, knowing that any minute we're gonna to lose our lives.

Daniel and the other researcher escaped by crawling out and climbing a tree.

It's left Daniel extremely wary of big bulls

and he's very much in awe of Rommel, the bull who attacked him.

He's a legend, he's amazing cos I mean, what happens, none of our bulls

ever attack the car, it's only Rommel.

Rommel hasn't been seen for several years, the team think he might be dead.

But Daniel's experience shows just how dangerous working with bull elephants can be.

After the rains, Samburu is teeming with life.

All the animals here are dependent on the river.

The elephants come to drink every day, so it's a good place for David to look for Breeze.

There are still a few families returning late to the reserve.

Suddenly, David sees the elephants he's been waiting for.

It's his old friends, the Winds, led by matriarch, Harmattan.

And just behind is her calf, Breeze.

It's a huge relief.

Breeze has made it safely back to the reserve.

But the dry season has taken its toll.

You know, Breeze, when they came back, she looked a little bit thin,

but you know that's what we expect all the elephants to be looking like at dry season.

But after coming back to the reserve she was doing very well,

playing with the calves, so little Breeze has grown to be an elephant.

Breeze has really grown up.

She now joins the older calves in their more boisterous games.

Harmattan has drawn on the experience of a lifetime to lead her family through the drought.

But there's a new problem.

As the herds gather,

there are excited elephants and unruly bulls everywhere.

HE TRUMPETS

Harmattan must continue to protect her family.

Another herd comes charging into the river.

Harmattan takes evasive action.

David can relax.

With her mother's skilful leadership, Breeze has got through her most vulnerable months

and she has every chance of a bright future.

A mile away, there's another new arrival.

A strange bull is chasing off another male.

Saba's straight on his trail.

He's huge and Saba thinks she recognises him.

A distinctive cut on his right ear confirms it.

This is Rommel,

the bull who six years ago nearly killed Daniel and wrecked a car.

Everyone thought he was dead, but he's back.

I think you should probably follow us in.

There he is, look.

He's the most dangerous elephant the team know and Saba needs to warn the others he's here.

David, David.

RADIO: Go ahead, Saba.

You're not going to believe who I've just bumped into.

Who?

Rommel.

OK, um, just make sure you keep your distance from Rommel.

Yeah, no, don't worry, I have no intention of getting too close.

Saba isn't taking any chances and is leaving herself an escape route.

Rommel has crossed the line and deliberately attacked people.

He's like this rogue bull who just comes out of nowhere and turns the whole place upside down.

We are all petrified of him, everyone is petrified of him.

I've never seen a reaction like that to a bull elephant.

We know all of the bulls in this area,

we know all of the resident bulls and we are pretty familiarised

with them, but Rommel is just, he's a whole different calibre.

His head and neck are massive,

he's built like a prize-fighter, with the aggression to match.

There are bloody wounds on his face and trunk, it looks like he's already been fighting.

There's only one thing on his mind, finding females.

And knowing Rommel, he won't let anything get in his way.

Saba will have to be very careful.

The reserve is now full of dozens of elephant families.

Among them are the Native Americans, led by their matriarch, Mohican.

Her impressive tusks almost touch at the tip.

Things are about to get interesting for Mohican.

Her streaming temple glands are a sign she's in season and soon she'll be ready to mate.

A female in oestrus gives off a distinctive scent in her urine.

Already, there are lusty young bulls on her trail and they're heading straight into the family.

Mohican moves away from her herd and stops the bulls disrupting family life.

She can't go too far.

She has a two-year-old calf, who's relying on her milk.

But the amorous bulls don't give her much time to suckle him.

All the local bulls are closing in on her.

As a matriarch, Mohican has a high rank in the reserve

and these younger males are not the ones she'll want to mate with.

ELEPHANTS SCREAMING

She's making her intentions clear and waiting until the big bulls are here.

There's bad news.

A dead elephant has been reported outside the reserve.

Getting there now. About where it is.

Iain is a skilled pilot

and the team are trying to find it from the air.

We had a report yesterday, from the same warrior who described...

Onesmas Kahindi has worked with Save The Elephants for 10 years.

He investigates every elephant death.

-There, there, there, yes, right there.

-They've found it.

There's a carcass right there.

It's another mysterious death and the team will have to look into it.

Every year, elephants are illegally killed by man.

Each pin represents an elephant poached for its ivory.

In the 1970s and '80s,

600,000 elephants were killed - over half of Africa's population.

Numbers are slowly recovering but poaching is still a threat.

Four months ago, the biggest bull in the area was killed in suspicious circumstances.

That's Mungu all right, there's no question about it,

M for Mungu, how very sad.

The team knew Mungu well and this was a terrible loss.

Look at that.

Black ivory markets still exist

and unfortunately they exist in countries that

neighbour Kenya and very close to where we are right now.

All elephants here are at risk when they step outside the protected reserve.

But the big bulls are prime targets because of their huge tusks.

To investigate the latest deaths, Onesmas must leave the reserve straight away.

At the river, herds of elephants are gathering.

The breeding season is well under way.

Young bulls are testing their strength.

Mothers have to work hard to make sure their babies aren't caught in the turmoil.

Amongst the herds, David spots a calf in real trouble.

A baby elephant, just a few weeks old, is badly injured.

She has a very swollen front leg.

She's called Miro and her mother, Chagall, is a bit of a loner.

She's split away from her herd, the Artists,

and this leaves her and her calf very vulnerable.

A young elephant is having fun chasing egrets,

but although Miro looks interested, she can't join in.

She's missing out on playing and learning,

which is vital to a baby elephant's development.

This is a terrible time for the calf and her mother.

Chagall is doing her best to look after the crippled calf on her own.

But when a big herd approaches, she's forced to leave the river.

Miro is clearly in pain

and just keeping up with her mother is an ordeal.

David knows that without immediate help,

this injury could be fatal for little Miro.

Iain has come out to see Rommel, the bull elephant with the worst reputation in the reserve.

Oh, my God, there he is.

I haven't seen him for four years.

Four years ago, Iain tried to radio collar Rommel,

but his neck was too big!

So where he roams is still a mystery.

I just feel so lucky that we're seeing him now.

It's just wonderful, he'd been roaming and here he is,

he's come to acquaint himself with our ladies in this park

and to terrorise us.

I think he's upsetting a lot of male egos right now -

he's so big and fierce.

Saba can see from his temporal glands and streaming urine

that Rommel has entered the unique breeding condition of musth.

It's almost like this super-surge of hormones where they're just flooded with testosterone

and it brings them into this heightened state of sexuality and aggression, where they find females,

mate them, guard them and if they are forced to fight, then they are ready to escalate.

Charged with testosterone, Rommel is at his most dangerous.

And he's letting every other bull know he's arrived.

Bulls have a very specific rumble that they make when they are in musth.

What we can hear is just the tip of the iceberg and there's this huge

infrasonic boom that goes rolling out across the plains.

And it's making every elephant in the area know

that there is a musth bull around and they have to be careful.

Rommel is on a mission to find females in season,

like Mohican of the Native Americans family.

But the reserve covers over 100 square miles, so this could be a challenge.

If you try to get yourself inside an elephant's head,

you have to realise that their primary senses are touch, smell and sound.

And so the way that a musth bull homes in on an oestrus female is precisely using those senses

and, when you watch them, you'll see them constantly scenting the wind and listening,

and then just literally homing straight in to their one target.

Rommel has picked up a scent.

But if there's a female in season around, every other bull will also be heading that way.

Rommel needs to get there first.

Onesmas is heading north.

He's investigating the recent elephant deaths to find out if poaching is involved.

You see this is where Esidai takes his migration route.

From the collaring data, the team know that elephants from the reserve travel the same route.

I think like an elephant and I have to act like one.

Just like an elephant, I have a mission and I have a purpose.

I have to get to that carcass, no matter what circumstances it's in.

Onesmas is in Namunyak.

He's hoping to get information from the Samburu people, who share this land with elephants.

Poachers do operate here, but most people don't want elephants to be harmed.

In fact, the Samburu have a deep respect for elephants.

The herders gather from miles around at a dry river bed.

They dig wells to water their precious livestock.

But it's not just the livestock that benefit.

Elephants also dig in river beds when it's dry.

But here the water is too deep for the elephants to reach, so the herders help them out.

The Samburu people will always allow elephants to actually come and drink

from the same wells and the argument is, they are part of the landscape

and particularly for elephants, they are an important symbol within the culture.

Herders cover vast areas and are often the first to hear about dead elephants or poachers.

With time and trust, Onesmas has built an intelligence network.

And it's about to pay off.

Back in the reserve, David and Iain are looking for Miro, the little calf with an injured leg.

She's resting with some other elephants under the shade of a tree.

OK, we'll just wait until she comes into the open.

Ah, is it that small baby?

-Yeah.

-Oh, really, the tiny one?

-The tiny baby.

-Oh, my God.

-I know.

What we do now is we assess whether or not we need to get Dr Chege...

OK.

Miro's leg is worse than ever.

Ah, poor little thing, look at that.

The calf is quite skinny.

Miro's struggling to walk and she's getting thinner.

Yes, it is swollen.

I want to see how she puts her weight on it.

-It's blown up like a football.

-Hmm.

I wonder what happened?

You know, David, I think we are going to have to get Dr Chege.

It just doesn't look good enough.

I agree with you.

Just like us, elephants feel deep emotion

and the team can't let the calf and her mother suffer.

The vet is her only hope.

It's the end of the day and Rommel is closing in on his target.

He's headed straight for a herd of females.

It's Mohican, the matriarch in season.

Rommel has tracked her scent halfway across the reserve.

But another bull has got here first, a big male called Kofi.

Rommel makes his move.

As the two giants size each other up, the tension rises.

And it's Kofi who backs down.

Rommel greets the family.

To win them over, he needs to make a gentle approach.

The whole herd seem fascinated by this enormous stranger.

But Kofi isn't leaving -

the allure of a female in season is just too strong.

So far, it's Rommel who's proving to be a hit with the ladies.

When he moves off, Mohican and the rest of the family follow him.

But if Rommel isn't vigilant, Kofi could chance a mating with Mohican.

For the next few days, Rommel will shadow Mohican day and night and he must be prepared to fight off Kofi.

Outside the reserve, Onesmas has vital new information.

A Samburu herder reported gunshots, close to the dead elephant the team saw from the air.

Onesmas needs to turn detective and find out if it was poached.

Like the old English saying where "Dead men tell no tales",

in my opinion, dead elephants tell a lot of tales.

It's a big bull and the evidence points to a violent death.

It did not die immediately, because you can see this little hollow on

the ground is actually made by the knee rubbing on the ground.

This elephant fought to survive, but his wounds were too great.

If we walk around this way...

The tusks have been hacked away -

this elephant was definitely poached.

Even more suspicious, there's the remains of a small fire nearby.

Again, that hole there,

gives a lot of information and it's clearly a spear wound.

It's very, very sharp on the edge here

and there are actually two of them.

From his teeth, Onesmas can work out how old he was.

26 centimetres and the width is eight centimetres.

That elephant is 51 years, that's a big elephant.

This was an impressive bull, in the prime of life.

He should be in the reserve for the breeding season with the other bulls.

His death is extremely worrying, as it was only a few months ago

that Mungu, another huge bull, was illegally killed in the area.

I am a little concerned that there might be a local outbreak of poaching now.

We've got to be alert and when you get two

coming up in quick succession,

then you go into hyper alert and that's where we are right now.

It's quite disappointing we are losing these big males

at a very fast rate and sadly to poaching.

Losing the big bulls would be a disaster for the Samburu elephants.

The older, stronger males are the ones the females prefer to mate with.

The team will need to take action.

David has been joined by Dr Stephen Chege, a vet from the Kenya Wildlife Service.

They're on their way to see Miro, the calf with the badly-injured leg.

Dr Chege needs to see if he can help her.

So, which is the baby you're talking about?

So, that's the baby, you see the big female, you see the baby just on the left?

Yeah, I can actually see the calf now.

Dr Chege's assessment isn't good.

-It could be a wire snare. Not very clear from here.

-Yeah.

But highly suspect that it could be a wire snare.

Wire snares are used for illegal game poaching, and cause terrible injuries.

They need to examine Miro, but they can't do this with her mother around.

Chagall will attack anyone who gets close to her baby.

It's a difficult dilemma.

It's a risky business.

What will happen if we do nothing?

If we do nothing and it's a wire snare,

-it will end up losing that part of the limb.

-So it will die?

It will certainly die.

The team will have to anesthetise the calf and her mother. It's a huge risk.

We have to be careful of the female falling on the calf.

One way, the baby could die with the mama falling on it,

the other way, the baby's dead for sure.

So it's a risk that has to be taken.

The team have never carried out such a difficult operation.

But for Miro it's a matter of life or death and to save this elephant, it's a chance the team have to take.

Where are you guys?

-RADIO: Just come along the middle, we are coming to get you there.

-OK.

David is in charge of the operation and team tactics will be crucial.

So, David...I can see the calf.

They've spotted Miro and her mother Chagall, who have joined some other elephants.

We can stop here now, David.

Let's just stop there.

This is the target.

HE FIRES

ELEPHANT GROANS

Tell everyone animal darted, keep watch.

The elephants sense something's happened and start running.

We should actually stop here.

She's leaving, she's leaving.

The team must split the other elephants away from Chagall.

ELEPHANT ROARS

She's going to go on her chest.

But there's an unexpected problem.

Chagall looks like she's going to fall on her chest -

an awkward position that could restrict her breathing.

I need help now...

Even worse, Miro is right next to her and could be crushed when she goes down.

They try desperately to pull Miro away from her mother.

Let's try to push her mama!

Now everyone rushes in to help.

I want two people, to be the calf, OK, everyone, help. Let's be the calf.

More people, can you be there?

There's not enough manpower to push over three tonnes of elephant.

Chagall's breathing could stop in minutes and now she's the one that needs urgent help.

Using a car and tow ropes is their best chance.

The ropes have broken.

The situation is now critical.

Back at the river, bull elephant Rommel has got problems.

Mohican, the female in season, is following a bull, but it's not Rommel.

He isn't far behind but something's gone badly wrong.

Overnight, Rommel has lost one of his tusks.

He could have been fighting and maybe lost because it's his rival, Kofi, who's got Mohican's attention.

Breaking a tusk puts him at a serious disadvantage.

Rommel isn't one to give up but his competition is building.

THEY TRUMPET

The reserve is now full of bulls

and they're all throwing their weight around.

Ultimately though, it's Mohican who will decide which bull she wants to mate with.

Kofi tries a new technique,

acting casual and posing with his trunk over one tusk.

Maybe it's working.

Walking quickly away is a strategy to see if he'll follow.

And Kofi is taking the initiative.

Rommel's got the biggest reputation in the reserve but he isn't making the moves.

With a broken tusk and added competition, his chances with Mohican seem to be slipping away.

Out on the plains, the team are in trouble.

They still need to treat baby Miro but first they must help Chagall, before her breathing stops.

THEY CHATTER

Some quick thinking is needed

and Iain's years of field experience means he knows exactly what to do.

Together, they attach stronger ropes to provide maximum leverage.

It's got to be pulled that way.

Miro is kept away, so there's no chance of her getting crushed.

Iain reverses the car at exactly the right angle.

OK, let's just push,

push, push...push!

OK, push.

OK, fine. Well done, Iain, OK.

Chagall's breathing has stabilised

and water will stop her from overheating.

Miro has also been sedated and Dr Chege can examine her foot.

What, it's broken?

It's not a snare, her leg is broken.

I'll just get a syringe.

I wanted to confirm if there's pus, anything like that.

So what I'm doing is actually

putting in an antibiotic to prevent any further infection.

Infection in a fractured bone could be fatal.

The antibiotics should save her life.

In a young calf like this, it should heal very fast.

ELEPHANT GROANS

Miro is coming round.

But she's totally confused.

She heads for the nearest large object, thinking it could be her mother.

Chagall is given the antidote to her anaesthetic.

But Miro is heading off in the wrong direction.

This could be serious, a confused baby elephant could potentially run for miles.

Iain tries to stop her.

Chagall is up but she's walking away from her calf.

Iain has a solution.

What Iain is doing, he's trying to direct the calf to the mother, that's very good.

Baby elephants don't have fully-developed senses,

and Iain is tricking Miro into thinking that his car is another elephant.

That's good enough.

She just needs a final push in the right direction.

Thanks to some quick thinking by the team,

the operation has been a success.

David did an excellent job, tactically.

Always a risk involved, but one that paid off this time

and worth taking.

All our hearts was pumping, you know, just hoping this tiny calf,

you know, the mother would not just sit on her, but all went very well.

I feel very happy. They are all back in the wild, joined their family,

and they are happy as they could be.

This is a great team that can overcome many challenges in the field.

It's dawn in the reserve.

The team are all up early.

Onesmas is heading back to camp.

Saba is out looking for her favourite bull elephant.

Things are looking up for Rommel.

He's seen off the competition, including Kofi.

He now has Mohican all to himself.

He's timed his advances perfectly

because she's now probably at the peak of her oestrus.

Something is definitely in the air.

All the elephants are getting excited.

THEY TRUMPET

The courtship begins in earnest with Rommel closely following Mohican.

At first, she moves quickly away.

But she slows down and Rommel places his trunk on her back -

a signal for her to stand still.

Finally, Rommel gets his girl.

THEY TRUMPET

The whole herd are trumpeting and excited about the mating.

For Mohican, the difficult days of being pursued by bulls have paid off.

She's been mated by the biggest, toughest bull in the reserve

and in nearly two years' time, she may have a new baby.

Rommel has certainly impressed Mohican and the herd -

they're following him away.

Onesmas is back.

The co-ordinates of the poached bull show just how close he died

to Mungu, the other bull that was killed.

There you go.

3km.

This data will be passed to the Kenya Wildlife Service and could be vital

to tracking down the poachers.

A high chance that he was one of ours.

Yes, he's got to be one of the ones we know.

The sad deaths of these two mighty bulls shows how dangerous the areas

outside the reserve can be for elephants.

But the Samburu people who live here could be crucial to helping them.

The nomadic herders are often first to find dead elephants,

or hear if poachers are operating in the area.

The Samburu could be the ideal guardians of the elephants.

They believe elephants bring them real benefits.

They burn elephant dung to ward off evil spirits.

If these traditional values could be built on,

it could help protect all Samburu's elephants.

And there's no better place to start than the next generation.

Amazingly, many local children never get the chance

to see elephants in the wild.

They could be the next generation of rangers, vets and elephant researchers.

The team hope that if the people who share space with elephants

come to love and value them, they'll want to protect them in the future.

David is heading out to check up on Miro.

It's been two days since she was treated

and already she's looking better.

Miro's walking has improved and she's keeping up with Chagall.

With her mother's continuing protection,

she now has every chance of a full recovery.

The team believe that every elephant is important for the future.

In the past months, they've seen calves like Miro and Breeze make it through difficult times,

and there's new life to look forward to.

By using pioneering technology and following individual elephant stories,

the research team are making remarkable new discoveries.

They've witnessed love for a newborn baby...

..unprovoked violence,

lusty males

and heartbreaking grief.

All the emotion and intelligence that shows just how like us they really are.

My greatest hope for the elephants is that they will be allowed

to continue their way of life,

in harmony with man,

and that people will increasingly become delighted

by their knowledge of elephants,

appreciating this separate, intelligent, sensitive creature.

The Save the Elephants team will continue to watch their every move

and keep them safe.

Above all, they'll keep working to reveal the secret life of elephants.

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