ELEPHANT
Here are some links to organizations and information involved with elephants.

Amboseli Trust for Elephants
Cynthia Moss has been studying this group of elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park since 1972 - the longest running African elephant field research project in the world. Her studies of more than 2,000 elephants (1,400 still living) in their natural habitat are the most comprehensive ever undertaken.

David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust: A Haven For Elephants & Rhinos
Based in Kenya's Tsavo National Park, this conservation organization is probably best known for it's African elephant orphan project. Headed by Dame Daphne Sheldrick, the Trust has successfully saved and hand-reared over 82 infant African elephant calves, two from the day of birth. Currently, over 40 of the Trust’s hand-reared elephants are fully established and living free amongst their wild peers in Tsavo, some returning with wild born young to show their erstwhile human family.

The Elephant Listening Project
ELP began at the Portland Zoo in 1984, when Katy Payne felt (more than heard) the low-frequency rumbling communication of two Asian elephants, a male and female, who were standing on opposite sides of a concrete wall. In the following years, Katy and a group of dedicated colleagues demonstrated that elephants often communicate using sounds below the threshold of human hearing, that these sounds carry over vast distances, and that elephants use vocal communication to bind their complex family social system together. The earliest research was focused on savannah elephants, but increasingly the focus has been on forest elephants in the rainforests of Central Africa.

Elephant Voices
Researcher Joyce Poole's website is full of information and additional links, sounds, and images.

Elephant Sanctuaries
Here are some links to sanctuaries for working elephants.

The Elephant Sanctuary
Founded by Carol Buckley and Scott Blais in 1995, this natural-habitat refuge in Tennessee is for sick, old and needy endangered Asian elephants.

Performing Animal Welfare Society
Founded in 1984, by former Hollywood animal trainer and author, Pat Derby, and her partner, Ed Stewart, PAWS maintains three sanctuaries for captive wildlife - 30 acres in Galt, California, 100 acres (The Amanda Blake Wildlife Refuge) in Herald, California and 2,300 acres of pristine, natural habitat (ARK 2000) in San Andreas, California.

MONKEY
Here are some links to organizations and information about primates.

Ha.   Ha.  Ha Ha. performance series curated with Chase Granoff, Manpack Variant, an electronics duo with Jaime Fennelly, and collaborations with interdisciplinary video/performance artist and storyteller Deke Weaver. Chris is currently working on an MA at the Dartmouth College Digital Musics Program in Hanover, NH. 

ART, PERFORMANCE & THE NATURAL WORLD
codirector/choreographer/performer  (Monkey, Elephant)

BD Collier
Collier is doing some fascinating work with invasive species. Past projects have included work with starlings and parrots. New projects include the asian carp and it's threat to midwestern waterways. Hilarious, very dry, and devastating.

Jennifer Monson / iLand
iLAND Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance investigates the power of dance, in collaboration with other fields, to illuminate our kinetic understanding of the world. Artistic director, Jennifer Monson, is a choreographer and performer who's history runs broad and deep.

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