Echo and the Elephants of Amboseli: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

This is the incredible story of a mother's journey to keep her family alive. Echo is a wise elephant matriarch in her sixties. She lives in Southern Kenya alongside fifteen hundred other wild African elephants. As oldest female and head of the family, Echo must guide four generations of her relatives through the cruel famine that follows the failure of the latest rains: she must protect them from attack by lions, and keeps them away from growing conflict with angry Maasai farmers. Observing her as they have for the past four decades are American scientist Cynthia Moss and her team from the Amboseli Trust for Elephants.

Series details

• Title: Echo and the Elephants of Amboseli
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Genres: Nature
• Premiere date: 2009-10-19
• Final broadcast date listed: 2010-01-11
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Animal Planet
• Network country: Australia
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 17684
• IMDb ID: tt1536175
• TVDB ID: 264516

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2009-10-19; final listed air date 2010-01-11; episode order: 13.

Source and licence

Adapted from Echo and the Elephants of Amboseli on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.