Song of the Lost Clan Information and Resources on the Young Adult Novel

This BBC clip shows elephant behavior. It’s another visit with Andrea Turkalo in Dzanga Baï, Central Africa. Watch adolescent male elephants learn how to be adults when the big bulls show up. ...

Two very touching videos. From National Geographic From Nature ...

60 Minutes Presents: Into The Wild The second segment is on the study of elephant language. Andrea Turkalo has been studying central African forest elephants in the Dzanga Baï clearing for 19 years. She’s identified a link between their complex vocalizations and their actions, working with scientists at Cornell University, they’re trying o compile an elephant ...

I had a great time reading Chapter 1 from Song of the Lost Clan at the Columbia Festival of the Arts, June 12, 2010. I was the first to read at the HoCoPoLitSo tent, which they graciously shared with the Maryland Writer’s Association. I caught a lot of people returning from the kinetic sculpture parade, ...

This report from the International Fund for Animal Welfare, “Driving Elephants Back into Tsavo National Park – Reducing Human-Elephant Conflicts in Taita” illustrates the mounting tension between humans and elephants. As elephant populations recover, bands of stray elephants are ranging outside Kenya’s Tsavo National Park and the neighboring community wildlife conservancies, destroying human settlements. Elephant are ...

Another “song” from my elephant YA novel. Again, any comments on these songs are greatly appreciated. This one’s meant sung to an original tune by the elephants in my novel. I hear this one with the word “home” chanted in triplets through the chorus and then sung on the beat behind the verse. Homecoming Home at last. I ...

In a publicity stunt gone terribly wrong, the elephants rampaged through Arlington, Virginia. ...

Two versions of Baby Elephant Walk by Henry Mancini. This first one features the music as I remember it when I was younger. And this one, which I really like. Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra-Baby Elephant Walk ...

An adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Elephant’s Child. It’s a good video, but I miss some of the vindication the Elephant’s Child gets in the full version of the story. Enjoy. ...

My daughter especially liked this one. ...