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.
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.
