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trumpet sounded. The entire elephant family had come up the road behind us

and were closing in on the truck. I interpreted the trumpeting, coming from the

young elephant we later named Spirit Sister, as an injunction to stop. I had to

heed her demand. The guide who was driving was concerned but yielded to my

request. In a moment, we heard another trumpet. A young bull elephant

emerged from the trees, stopped and trumpeted before us, then took his place

within the elephant family. Spirit Sister was introducing her family to us. We

began to consider again that we might, in fact, be Ambassadors between

species.

At first we thought that the meeting with the Ambassador in Chobe was

privileged, because he and his people met us again and again without having

any way of knowing when we would arrive. We also thought it could occur

because we were in our own vehicle and free from the opinions, beliefs, and

restrictions of the locals. Though the meeting in the Ruaha was not as dramatic

and extended as our other meetings in Chobe, it did occur, irrefutably, in another

country and in the presence of a guide.

Perhaps because I have returned to Chobe so many times, and the interaction

with the elephants has been so personal, I have held the belief that the

relationship is between the Ambassador and myself and whoever has joined us

for a visit. Cyndie thought that the relationship was between us and elephants,

not the Ambassador exclusively. Whatever the means of connection between

us, both Cyndie and I have felt called to meet the issue of elephant and animal

extinction. A dream in July 2015 furthered this commitment.

Valerie Wolf and I were upstairs in an old Victorian like mansion. [Valerie,

Cyndie and I had had a remarkable meeting with the Ambassador in

2008]2 We heard voices downstairs and became alarmed. Two dark

skinned men, neither black nor white, revealed they were from the Radical

2 See, https://deenametzger.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/the-language-of-relationship-engagement-with-
elephants/

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