A moment later she felt the elephant trying to pick her up with her tusks. The elephant was startled and lashed out, using the same amount of force she would have used with another elephant, sending Daphne Sheldrick sprawling on the ground. It was then that she realized her mistake. Daphne Sheldrick stood next to her and put her hand up to touch her behind the ear, as she always did with Eleanor. She didn’t look quite the same, but she was standing there quite unafraid, so it had to be Eleanor. They set off to find her, and thought they had spotted her by a waterhole. One day Daphne Sheldrick wanted to introduce Eleanor to one of her human friends. They would spend a few moments together, and then Eleanor would go back to her herd. Occasionally, she went to visit Eleanor, who would come over, greeting her affectionately. She had known Eleanor since she was a two year old orphan and had successfully rehabilitated her back into a wild herd. In an interview by Jim Fleming on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “To the best of our knowledge,” Daphne Sheldrick talks about her book, Love, Life, and Elephants.
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