The EBs are still not together, sometimes Enid and Eleanor come together but only stick for some time. Ella's whereabouts are still unknown, but we hope she is safe and staying out of trouble. It is very dry in the entire ecosystem and most of the elephants are outside the park. Edwina and her calves are not moving far, they are always in Oltukai Orok, where the Elephant Research Camp is situated. Eliot who is "mama" to all orphans, spends most her time with Esprit and Eudora spends most of the time with Elspeth and their calves.

Echo's entire carcass is protected with an electric fence to keep hyenas and jackals away due to their scrounging ways of chewing and scattering the bones all over. This was an idea initiated by KWS-Amboseli and ATE so that at one time Echo's entire skeleton will be intact after when the fleshly tissues will have worn out.

Now for the first time, since an arrangement like this ever made to elephants dying from natural causes in Amboseli National Park, her skeleton will be displayed in a museum in remembrance of the greatest matriarch who provided us with insights into elephant behavior, leadership, communication, social relations and intelligence as long as she ever lived.

For the last two days there was evidence that members of her family group have been visiting the carcass. I probably have been too late to find one on the spot and saw only fresh foot prints. Today I chanced upon Enid (Echo's oldest daughter), Ejac (Enid's first-born son), Elise (Enid's second-born daughter) and her 2008 female calf some meters away. I have reasons to believe that Enid and her family have been making early visits to the carcass every morning. Enid has not yet gotten over the grief of her mother's death, because she seems to be the most distraught. She still shows agitated behavior and has temporal gland secretion. About 100 meters away in North Longinye swamp, Eleanor and her 2009 female calf were feeding—was she probably at the scene (where the carcass is) super-early morning?

Enid later headed to the Emali Bridge swamp and after communicating with Eleanor, a sign that they were probably trying to locate each other, she joined Enid in the same swamp.