Mark Hammond

“There was more talk of elephants and their ways over dinner that night. Boago explained how an elephant orphan project would try to create a new herd and then gradually release its members back into the wild. That was what they were doing there, he said. It had been done before, he told them, in other schemes. And when the elephants were released they came back – frequently at first, but then less often as they created their own lives. ‘But there’s an amazing thing,’ he continued. ‘They will bring their children back to introduce them to their old keepers. They bring them back to the camp shortly after they are born. Elephants are very proud of their children.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, How to Raise an Elephant