Let's go!" By day the keepers lead the orphans into the bush to browse. They deliver midday bottles of formula at a designated mud-bath venue. When a cluster of wild elephant heads appears in the ...

one herd of orphans that witnessed a family member being killed, and a second herd, living in a protected area that never experienced the same suffering. In elephant society, severe trauma affects ...

The human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka continues unabated. Although efforts by successive governments since the 1970s have reduced the rate of attrition, and there are about 7,000 elephants still in ...