This is the story of Debra Stevens, who found a second family amongst the elephants of Botswana. Complete with beautiful video clips, this piece immerses you into life at Elephant Havens, then threads back to a different journey of discovery back in Stevens’ home of Dallas, Texas.
The mood turns sober when the young elephant stumbles out of the truck, into the boma. Her eyes were wrapped in cloth to help keep her calm on the journey, and she blindly bumps her head along the inside perimeter of the posts until Bee manages to reach through and loosen the blindfold. The elephant shakes her head, and the cloth falls. Once she sees humans, her ears flare out wide, contradicting her emaciated frame. A backbone juts up like a curved fin, and her hide hangs in loose folds where limbs meet midsection. After getting her bearings, she rushes in our direction, stopping short of the posts.
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