![]() ![]() Lawrence Anthony: There is scientific work on communication between elephants via infrasound. Liz Else: Do elephants communicate with us? I think they value good relations with us, but they don’t know what it is that would make us stop abusing them. ![]() They are generally interested in humans because they are intelligent enough to gauge that their predicament is brought about by humans, who shoot them, dart them, move them – something is always going on involving humans. After a few days of benign presence they stop what they are doing and take an interest in you. It takes a lot of time and you need to be alone with them. Lawrence Anthony: Elephants communicate with me at least as much as I do with them. ![]() Liz Else: How did you end up being called ‘the elephant whisperer’? When Liz Else tracked him down she talked to him about reconnecting with nature and communicating with elephants. Grade 12 LISTENING COMPREHENSION Colleen Callahan Colleen teaches English at St Joseph’s Marist College, Rondebosch, where she is Head of the Middle Schoolįrom rescuing a herd of rogue elephants destined to be shot, to saving the animals in Baghdad Zoo during the Iraqi war, maybe it is no surprise that Hollywood has made a film about maverick conservationist Lawrence Anthony. ![]()
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