Echo of the Elephants
Echo is the name of the 45-year-old matriarch of a family of 15 females and their young. Males leave at about age 14. Males begin to mate at age 25 to 30; we see an 11-yr-old female giving birth.
Cynthia Moss follows the family from Feb. 1990 to June 1991. A very large calf is born to Echo (22 months after mating), who takes 48 hours to be able to walk (normal is .5 hour), because he was so large his tendons couldn't stretch in the womb. There was drought June 1990 through March 1991. Normally there are rains in both March and November. The park has a swamp that normally has water even in the dry season, fed by snowmelt from Mount Kilimanjaro.
Cynthia Moss has studied elephants since 1972, 20 years in Kenya's Amboseli National Park. There are 750 elephants in 50 family groups, and no hunting.
The show was written by Cynthia Moss and David Attenborough. Moss narrates part of it. Attenborough does not narrate, does not appear.
broadcast 1993. DVD 2005.
Echo of the Elephants: the Next Generation. Broadcast 1/14/1996; on DVD 2005 (with the 1993 episode, Echo of the Elephants. 2 shows on 1 disk.)
Follows the same family from Oct. 1992 to 1995.
Shows the family bedding down after midnight, using a special camera. They sleep only 3 hours (then nap during the day).
Shows more bull elephant fights, mating, births, newborns, injury, illness, recovery, kidnapping of a newborn by a rival family, recovery of the newborn by Echo and family invading the rivals in a phalanx.
A streaming temporal gland between an elephant's eye and ear, shows the elephant is agitated.
There are only 200 breeding-age male elephants in Amboseli: of these, Moss tells us of 4 prime bulls who were killed by poachers and "sport" hunters in 1995 and 1996.
Amboseli normally receives only 12 inches of rain per year, divided among 2 brief rainy periods in an otherwise hot, dry year.
Echo is the name of the 45-year-old matriarch of a family of 15 females and their young. Males leave at about age 14. Males begin to mate at age 25 to 30; we see an 11-yr-old female giving birth.
Cynthia Moss follows the family from Feb. 1990 to June 1991. A very large calf is born to Echo (22 months after mating), who takes 48 hours to be able to walk (normal is .5 hour), because he was so large his tendons couldn't stretch in the womb. There was drought June 1990 through March 1991. Normally there are rains in both March and November. The park has a swamp that normally has water even in the dry season, fed by snowmelt from Mount Kilimanjaro.
Cynthia Moss has studied elephants since 1972, 20 years in Kenya's Amboseli National Park. There are 750 elephants in 50 family groups, and no hunting.
The show was written by Cynthia Moss and David Attenborough. Moss narrates part of it. Attenborough does not narrate, does not appear.
broadcast 1993. DVD 2005.
Echo of the Elephants: the Next Generation. Broadcast 1/14/1996; on DVD 2005 (with the 1993 episode, Echo of the Elephants. 2 shows on 1 disk.)
Follows the same family from Oct. 1992 to 1995.
Shows the family bedding down after midnight, using a special camera. They sleep only 3 hours (then nap during the day).
Shows more bull elephant fights, mating, births, newborns, injury, illness, recovery, kidnapping of a newborn by a rival family, recovery of the newborn by Echo and family invading the rivals in a phalanx.
A streaming temporal gland between an elephant's eye and ear, shows the elephant is agitated.
There are only 200 breeding-age male elephants in Amboseli: of these, Moss tells us of 4 prime bulls who were killed by poachers and "sport" hunters in 1995 and 1996.
Amboseli normally receives only 12 inches of rain per year, divided among 2 brief rainy periods in an otherwise hot, dry year.
