Our Favorites (Included in these sites are elephant video and sound clips.)

The New York Times: "Eavesdropping on Secrets of Elephant Society" (January 9, 2001) New York Times Science section with an in-depth story featuring the ELP project, with photos and quicktime videos narrated by Katy. (Access to the NY Times requires a free registration.)

NPR Radio Expeditions: "Listening to Elephants: Novel Way to Study Wildlife Raises Conservation Dilemma" (October-November 2002). Alex Chadwick visits the Elephant Listening Project in the field. The site features video footage, a slide show, and elephant audio.

NPR Radio Expeditions: "Forest Clearing Offers Rare View of Elusive Elephants" (June 2002) Alex Chadwick visits Andrea Turkalo at the Dzanga forest clearing to learn about the lives of forest elephants.

BBC radio: "A Life with Elephants" (April 2003) A mixture of encounters with elephants and the heart-felt writings of Katy Payne brings to life both what is extraordinary about elephants and what has been extraordinary about the life of one of the world's leading elephant scientists.

BBC radio:"Empathy and Ivory" (February 2003) Conservationists are worried that a recent decision to sell off stockpiles of ivory could spell disaster for wild African and Asian elephants.

NPR Earth and Sky: "Elephant Listening Project" (October 2, 2002)

NPR The Connection: "Behold The Elephant" (June 21, 2002)

BBC radio: "An Animal Apart" (May 2002) In a clearing in the tropical forests to the north of the Congo, a baby elephant lies dead. Over the next two days elephant researcher, Katy Payne, watches the reaction of the other elephants in the area. And what she sees astonishes her - from the unrelated male who tries fifty seven times to rouse the dead infant, to the adult female who starts to pull the body apart and put pieces of it in her mouth. These responses are as unique and varied as human responses would be.

CBS News 48 Hours: "Secret Language of Elephants" (July 2, 2001)

Conservation in Practice: "The Elephant Listening Project" (Summer 2004). This site requires a subscription fee.

CEPF.net: "Eavesdropping on Elephants" (March 2003)

Cornell University Engineering Magazine: "Elephant Ears" (Spring 2001)

Cornell University Press Release: "Dying to be heard, Africa's forest elephants are targets of large-scale acoustic monitoring effort" (October 13, 1999)

The African Elephant Bibliography

The African Elephant Database

Pachyderm Pachyderm is a bi-annual international peer-reviewed journal that deals primarily with matters related to African Elephant and Rhino conservation and management in the wild.

The Savanna Elephant Vocalization Project A project of Joyce Poole. "A main goal for the SEVP is to give easy access to years of field studies related to elephant communication - to elephant voices. Through better understanding of these magnificent mammals we can help to ensure their future survival - which we think is vital for our environment, our planet in general and the prosperity, in different ways, of each one of us."

The African Elephant Conservation Trust Headed by Cynthia Moss, the Trust holds the long-term objective of initiating, supporting and ensuring the continuation of key elephant research projects across the African continent. To help achieve this objective, the Trust funds the Amboseli Elephant Research Project..

Save the Elephants A project of Iain Douglas-Hamilton. "It is our mission to secure a future for elephants and to sustain the beauty and ecological integrity of the places where they live; to promote man's delight in their intelligence and the diversity of their world, and to develop a tolerant relationship between the two species."

Elephants as keystone species (PDF)

Elephants as Bushmeat (PDF)

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