Today Mary is talking to Janie Chodosh, author of 'The Elephant Doctor of India'.

She is an undergraduate at the University of Michigan and majored in biology, ecology, natural resources management, creative writing, and poetry. After college, she moved to Yosemite National Park where she worked as a naturalist and educator and learned to rock climb and backcountry ski.

For her thesis as a graduate student in the University of Montana's environmental studies she traveled to a rural community on the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico to develop an environmental education program focusing on neotropical migratory songbirds (a fancy title for birds that breed in the north and winter south of the border).

She moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico to work as the education director for the state Audubon Society and later as a teacher.

When not writing she loves to hang out with her family, rock climb, try to grow a garden in the arid southwest, bird watch, muck around in cool places, travel, and attempt to play Klezmer music on her violin!

Contact Janie through her website with links to all her books
https://janiechodosh.com/

Elephant friendly tea
https://www.elephantorigins.com

Recommended books:

The Soul of an Octopus
By Sy Montgomery

H is for Hawk
Vesper Flights
By Helen McDonald

Beyond Words
By Carl Safina

Earth's Wild Music
By Kathleen Dean Moore

Contact Mary at
mary@burrennaturesanctuary.ie

The elephant whisperer whose name I couldn't remember in the podcast was Lawrence Anthony.

'No one knows how, but the elephants travelled from one corner of the vast game reserve to the other, and came to Anthony’s home, and stood right outside of it, in the same way as they mourn the passing of one of their family members. They stood there for nearly two days, after which they dispersed again.'