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out of time, out of space, elephants
with a plunge into currents of macpherson’s strait in the Andaman islands off india, an elephant swims a short distance to a logging camp. Unlike African herds (overleaf), Asian elephants were widely tamed more than 4,000 years ago. yet those still wild share the plight of their African kin-overwhelming loss of habitat. Unless that can be halted, thelargest of land animals have no future as free beings.
confiscated and closely guarded, these 2.500 tusks would market in 1989, but kenya's president Daniel arap Moi burned have brought three million dollars on the international ivory them instead. his smoke signal to the world: stop buying ivory.
heavy traffic in kenya's amboseli national finds a tourists spending some 500 million dollar each year tosee its tusker in the driver's seat-for a change. with camera-toting elephants, kenya now realizes the profits of herd preservation.

THEY LOOMED over the plains on pillar legs, trailing a haze of insects and dust. Swallows wove around them. Egrets perched on their backs. the giants' heads alone were the size of the zebras and wildebeests making way before them. i approached these wildelephants in kenya's Amboseli National park with three researchers. norah njiraini, a member of the kikuyu tribe, pointed to a 60-year-old female resting her trunks across one of her long tusks and said "that's Jezebel, the group's matriarch." "next to her is the ten-year-old male we call Joshua," added soila sayialel, a Masai. the leader of the team, Joyce poole, just said, "watch this," and threw adried chip of buffalo dung partway to Joshua. He walked toward our car, picked up the chip, and chucked it straight back to Joyce.
Joyce laughed and turned away to talk. in short order she was bonked on the head with a tossed wildebeest bone; ten-year-old male elephants don't drop a game that easily. so joyce took off one of her rubber sandals and threwn it to Joshua. Instead of hurling it back,though, he flipped it away over his shoulder, then of challenge, as that failed to draw a reaction from Joyce, he walked back, picked up the shoe, chewed on it a bit, them finally threw it toward her. and there we stayed on the shimmering plains below the snows of kilimanjaro, two species playing catch.
I once followed a much larger bull, as males are called, into a clump of bushes, trying to get acloser view of a wicked-looking scar on his side. Just as he was stretching to take a bite, the big creature froze. All at once he was coming back my way, fully alert.
how?.... the wind was still in my favor and I'd been dead quiet. then I understood: he hadn't sensed me-not yet-but another bull nearby was sending out an alarm in frequencies too low for the human ear to detect. since biologistskatharine payne an william langbauer's recent discovery that elephants communicate through infrasound. *Joyce poole has cataloged 15 different types of ruble sounds that are partly "silent" and that transmit information over many miles. No wonder earlier elephant-watcher sometime thought the animals had ESP.
in kerala state, at the southern tip of India, Venkatadri Ganapathy dresses elephants ingold for religious festivals and marriage processions. he told me about an elephant handler, or mahout, who worked most of his life hauling timber with a very stout bull. Come payday, this mahout, who was also quite stout, would ride his elephant to the tavern in a nearby village and buy the beast a bottle of rice liqour- and several more to drink himself. when he finally keeled over, the bull wouldpick him up like a log, wrapping his trunkaroud the mahout´s body and resting him on his two great tusks





















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fuera del tiempo, fuera del espacio, los elefantes
con una zambullida en las corrientes del Estrecho de macpherson en las islas de Andaman en la India, un elefante nadando a poca distancia a un campamento maderero. A diferencia de los...