Channing Downing Bice

Colorado State University Professor George Wittemyer encourages the calf—disoriented by the truck ride—to go toward the other elephants. Credit: George Wittemyer and Save the Elephants. Colorado State University Professor George Wittemyer and his research team reunited a 4-month-old elephant calf with her family after she wandered into a tourist camp alone. The orphaned elephant calf was disoriented from a bumpy truck ride and didn't immediately move toward the other elephants.

ABSTRACT Wildlife seeking human food in campgrounds creates persistent management challenges in national parks. This study examined how a social marketing intervention, based on a behavior change model, influenced campers to responsibly manage food and other items that might attract wildlife.

He wasn’t there for my first steps. He wasn’t there when the training wheels came off my bike or when I scraped my knee for the first time. He wasn’t there to see me off for my first date or high school prom. As I sat there in a cold, creaky hotel room in February 2013, with my mother and brother; I was accepting my reality that for my someday college graduation or wedding, I’d walk with my mother and brother and without a father. However, he’s the kind of guy that restores your faith in humanity.