Tembo (1990)

Robert Bateman

""Elephants deserve the high stature they enjoy. We humans appreciate them not just for
their impressive size, but also for their high order of intelligence and sophisticated social
structure. Unlike most animals, they care about each other’s welfare. Most herds are
composed of adult females and young. When the juvenile males start to take too much
interest in “the girls,” they are expelled form the herd and roam in loose bachelor groups
that are much smaller in size than the family groups."

"He is “Tembo” in Swahili - a familiar term for elephant. I hope that he will live to a
ripe old age and pass on his genes to future generations of elephants so future
generations of humans can appreciate them."
- Robert Bateman