If Anthony refuses to take the elephants, they'll all be shot. And the matriarch thinks nothing of grabbing an electric wire, and taking the 8,000 volts of electricity long enough to short the wire or tear it down to clear a path for escape. They've escaped several times from their current home. The herd is apparently "rogue." They hate people. One day, he gets a call from someone offering him a herd of nine elephants for the preserve. Lawrence Anthony runs a nature preserve in South Africa called Thula Thula. That aside, this is a fantastic book about some of nature's most beautiful and amazing animals. So I wish this book had a different title. I'm starting to get bored with the various "whisperers." Especially since most of them don't do any actual whispering to the animals in question.
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