Updated 09.06.2026
For 28 years Joyce Poole '74 has been watching and listening to elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park.
How to Read an Elephant
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New photographs and video exclusive to National Geographic suggest that two dozen young elephants flown to China from Zimbabwe in July are being mistreated and are slipping into poor health, according to analysts who have examined the images.
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Elephant expert Joyce Poole poses for a photo. She has studied elephants for almost 5 decades and along with her husband has created the elephant ethogram, the first comprehensive library of thousands of elephant behaviors. There's nothing like this for any other species on earth.
The largest video and audio library of elephant behaviors.