Meet Greg. He's a stocky guy with an outsized swagger. He's been
the intimidating yet sociable don of his posse of
friends--including Abe, Keith, Mike, Kevin, Torn Trunk, and Willie.
But one arid summer the tide begins to shift and the third-ranking
Kevin starts to get ambitious, seeking a higher position within
this social club. But this is no ordinary tale of gangland
betrayal--Greg and his entourage are bull elephants in Etosha
National Park, Namibia, where, for the last twenty-three years,
Caitlin O'Connell has been a keen observer of their complicated
friendships. In Elephant Don, O'Connell, one of the leading experts
on elephant communication and social behavior, offers a rare inside
look at the social world of African male elephants. Elephant Don
tracks Greg and his group of bulls as O'Connell tries to understand
the vicissitudes of male friendship, power struggles, and play. A
frequently heart-wrenching portrayal of commitment, loyalty, and
affection between individuals yearning for companionship, it
vividly captures an incredible repertoire of elephant behavior and
communication. Greg, O'Connell shows, is sometimes a tyrant and
other times a benevolent dictator as he attempts to hold onto his
position at the top. Though Elephant Don is Greg's story, it is
also the story of O'Connell and the challenges and triumphs of
field research in environs more hospitable to lions and snakes than
scientists. Readers will be drawn into dramatic tales of an
elephant society at once exotic and surprisingly familiar, as
O'Connell's decades of close research reveal extraordinary
discoveries about a male society not wholly unlike our own. Surely
we've all known a Greg or two, and through this book we may come to
know them in a whole new light.
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