The secret elephants : the rediscovery of the world's most southerly elephants /
Gareth Patterson.
- Johannesburg : Penguin, 2011.
- xii, 294 pages : [14] pages of plates ; 20 cm.
Previously published by Penguin (South Africa) in 2009, reprinted in 2010.
Includes a select bibliography (pages 285-294).
Machine generated contents note: PART 1 -- 1. If Silence Could Speak -- 2. Burial Rituals -- 3. The Forest of Secret Voices -- 4. Capture of the Orphans -- 5. The Elephantine Miracle -- 6. Beginnings -- 7. Into the Forest -- 8. Signs of the Elephants -- PART 2 -- 9. Brother Elephant -- 10. Mingled Destinies -- 11. The Ivory Hunters -- 12. Tsitsikamma, a Last Stronghold -- 13. Death in the Shadow of a Mountain -- 14.'Jungle Man', a Life of Death -- PART 3 -- 15. An Elephant Called Strangefoot -- 16. Encounters with the Elephants -- 17. Elephants of Forest and Fynbos -- 18. Food for Thought -- 19. The Secret Place of the Elephants -- 20. Meeting the Elephants -- PART 4 -- 21. The Mystery, and the Baby -- 22. Elephants, Mushrooms, and Self-medication -- 23. The Nature of Health -- 24. Encounters with a Musth Bull -- 25. The Old Man and the Matriarch -- 26. Discovering Elephants by DNA -- 27. Baby Elephantom -- 28. The Awakening -- 29. My Soul's Land.