The Trunk in the Dark

Synopsis

In 1999, Dr. Miriam Vance was a thirty-four-year-old wildlife veterinarian working with a highly underfunded elephant orphanage in Kenya. The poaching crisis was tearing distinct familial breeding herds apart, leaving traumatized, milk-dependent calves to die of starvation or predation. That summer, rangers brought in a calf they named Naba. Naba was barely…