Cross - From the Diary of a Female Elephant (16/35)

Cross - From the Diary of a Female Elephant (16/35)

Everyone knows about elephants: the African elephants are the ones with the big ears and they are slightly larger than their Asian relatives. Mothers and children live in herds, the bulls are loners. However, anyone who watches elephants for a while soon becomes increasingly convinced that they are really individuals: individuals with their very own destinies, their own experiences and characteristics. For ten years the biologists Charles and Lara Fowley have been observing the herds in Tarangire National Park. During this time they became particularly fond of a young female elephant named "Cross". The life of this elephant with the crossed tusks has been completely different from that of other elephants and in no way corresponds to the descriptions in the text books.