Biography is a great way to build empathy with other individuals, offering insight into their struggles, desires, and needs. While working on the ‘Elephant Tourism in Nepal’ book, biographies of working elephants in Nepal allowed people to peek inside their lives. This led to a desire to share more stories, and also to an elephant biography project partially funded by the Culture and Animals Foundation. 

We would like to share these stories with you. We will be featuring rotating biographies, some adapted from the book chapters (thank you, ChatGPT–which the authors generally actively avoid but have embraced for the rewriting project), and some newly written work. We invite you to meet these intelligent, social, and emotionally complex individuals.