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The Elephant Whisperer
by Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence
Lawrence Anthony and his wife purchased an old hunting lodge and acreage in South Africa and turned it into a preserve. This is mostly the story of their first herd of elephants and the relationship he developed with them in order to heal them from their terror of humans.
At one point Anthony discusses the amazing, and mysterious, way elephants have of knowing things. He would have to fly to Durban on business occasionally. The elephants, no matter where on the reserve they were, would had back toward the lodge and be at the gate when he arrived. One time, they were seen heading for the lodge when they suddenly stopped and headed back into the bush. It was later determined they turned back just at the time Anthony missed his flight.
What Anthony could not know was that the moment he died, suddenly and unexpectedly of a coronary arrest, both herds, who were more than a day's journey out from the lodge, immediately headed there. For a week, they would go into the bush during the day to eat, but every night returned to line up along the fence surrounding the lodge to say good-bye to their friend. Just as they would have done for any other member of their herd.
At one point Anthony discusses the amazing, and mysterious, way elephants have of knowing things. He would have to fly to Durban on business occasionally. The elephants, no matter where on the reserve they were, would had back toward the lodge and be at the gate when he arrived. One time, they were seen heading for the lodge when they suddenly stopped and headed back into the bush. It was later determined they turned back just at the time Anthony missed his flight.
What Anthony could not know was that the moment he died, suddenly and unexpectedly of a coronary arrest, both herds, who were more than a day's journey out from the lodge, immediately headed there. For a week, they would go into the bush during the day to eat, but every night returned to line up along the fence surrounding the lodge to say good-bye to their friend. Just as they would have done for any other member of their herd.