Echo of the Elephants: The Story of an Elephant Family

Cynthia Moss has been studying the elephant population in Kenya’s Ambesoli National Park for more than 20 years. Her work here documents an intense 18-month observation, from January 1990 to June 1991, of a single family unit. Moss escorted cinematographer Colbeck as he filmed a documentary, airing on PBS’s Nature. Her film is like a novel yet is scientifically accurate, non-exaggerated, and highly informative. Readers will become involved with matriarch Echo and her family, kin, and clan. In a sense, this film is also about the rapid changes happening to Earth. While humans are propagating at an exponential rate (unreasonable, unbound, alarming) this most aggressive predator (human) eats everything into extinction and destroys habitats and echo-systems into extinction. Other work by Cynthia Moss includes Elephant Memories: Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family (1988).