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The elephant in captivity, says Heinrich Oberjohann, is a pious fraud-a nine-foot canting hypocrite that gives the human public what it wants while privately laughing up its trunk at the hairless little apes. Only in the wilds of Asia and, better still, of Africa, can elephant nature be...
Heinrich Oberjohann is a bring-'em-back-alive man, and he probably knows as much about elephants in the raw as anybody living. In the '30s, Animal Trader Carlo Hagenbeck sent him out to kidnap a few calves from the great herds which still roam the noxious swamps...
Oberjohann made his first capture when a cow elephant charged him in swamp water. She turned aside when his native boy screamed, and charged the boy instead. The boy ducked under water. So did Oberjohann, and the cow ran off. Her baby, left behind, accepted Oberjohann's rope, and...
All that night the baby elephant stood tethered while Oberjohann sat in a giant acacia tree, to wait for the mother's attack and watch the proceedings. At 2 a.m., "the night turned into a roaring, crashing hell." The acacia tree was torn from its roots, and Oberjohann was...
Rumbling Majorities. Sometimes Oberjohann was able to keep close to a herd for several minutes at a stretch without being detected; piece by piece he added to his elephant lore.