What is The Elephant Whisperer?
{{italic title}} '''''The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild''''' is a book by [[Lawrence Anthony]] and [[Graham Spence]] about Anthony's own life. It was published in 2009, but it is about things that happened before 2003. [[Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd.]] published it. It is about a [[game preserve]] in [[South Africa]] called [[Thula Thula]] where a herd of [[elephant]]s come to live.<ref name=Good>{{cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6375561-the-elephant-whisperer|publisher=Goodreads|access-date=May 25, 2021|title=The Elephant Whisperer }}</ref><ref name=PFact>{{cite web|url=http://www.poachingfacts.com/resources/book-reviews/the-elephant-whisperer-review|publisher=Poaching Facts|access-date=May 25, 2021|title=The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild – Review}}</ref><ref name=Mac>{{cite web|url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250007810|title=The Elephant Whisperer|publisher=MacMillan Publishers|access-date=May 25, 2021}}</ref><ref name=India>{{cite news|title=Guy Saved Elephants From Poachers, They Mourned His Death Outside His Home|author=Monit Khanna|url=https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/science-and-future/elephant-conservation-emotional-quotient-521101.html|access-date=May 25, 2021|date=August 24, 2020}}</ref> ==Plot== Lawrence Anthony tells the reader about elephants who came to live at Thula Thula in 1999.<ref name=Frankie>{{cite news|url=https://www.iol.co.za/sunday-tribune/news/frankie-thula-thulas-matriach-elephant-dies-7547712c-5bca-4d44-ae06-0fc709f1fcd1|access-date=May 25, 2021|author=Lethu Nxumalo|title=Frankie, Thula Thula’s matriach elephant, dies|date=January 31, 2021|publisher=iol}}</ref> They had been at a different game preserve, but they learned how to break through the [[electric fence]] and escape. This was bad because they ate people's [[crop]]s and because any human who wanted to could kill them. The oldest elephant was shot by humans. Usually, African game wardens did not talk to or go near the elephants because