For permission to conduct research in Amboseli National Park over many years we thank the National Research Council, the Kenya Wildlife Service and the Wardens of Amboseli National Park.

Our many Amboseli Elephant Research Project colleagues and collaborators have our deepest thanks for their commitment, support and friendship: Cynthia Moss, Soila Sayialel, Norah Njiraini, Katito Sayialel, Purity Wanjiko, Harvey Croze, Betsy Swart, Phyllis Lee, Keith Lindsay, Hamisi Mutinda, Winnie Kiiru, Lucy Bates, Dick Byrne, Karen McComb, David Sitonik, John Kioko, Beth Archie, Julie Hollister Smith, Robert Sayialel and Susan Alberts.

Our Minneriya-Kaudulla Elephant Project is still young, but already we have enthusiastic support from many quarters: Our thanks go to the Sri Lankan Department of Wildlife Conservation for permission to work in Minneriya and Kaudulla National Parks and the Department of Forestry to work in the surrounding protected forest habitats. We thank the support of numerous elephant enthusiasts including Srilal Miththapala, Sumith and Jameelah Spilapitiya, Asha de Vos, Ashoka Ranjeewa, Lalith Seneviratne, Thusitha Ranasinghe to name but a few.

Beyond the circle of Amboseli and Minneriya-Kaudulla we collaborate with scientists from other African and Asian elephant projects. We are grateful for the opportunity to work with these individuals and to learn from their experiences. We thank Katy Payne and the entire Elephant Listening Project, Iain Douglas-Hamilton and Save the Elephants team, Melissa Groo, Angela Stoeger-Horwath, the late Hezy Shoshani, Raman Sukumar, Andrea Turkalo, Shermin de Silva, and Caitlin O'Connell. Special thanks goes to Phil Kahl and Billie Armstrong for inspirational e-mail exchanges and discussions regarding elephant displays, and Phil Kahl and Charles Santiapillai for collaboration and their work with the Elephant Terms Glossary which is published on ElephantVoices.

In our Advocacy work we collaborate with people all over the world. We would like to mention just a few of them here: Katherine Meyer, Tanya Sanerib, Catherine Doyle, Mariana Tosca, Lisa Kane, Jean Harris, Glynis Vaughan, Karen Trendler, Rob Atkinson, David Hancocks, Peter Stroud, Raman Sukumar, Vivek Menon, Carol Buckley, Pat Derby, Ed Stewart, Nicole Paquette, Suzanne Roy, Ros Clubb, Gay Bradshaw, Amy Mayer, Margaret Whittaker, Gail Lauley, Keith Lindsay, Phyllis Lee, Cynthia Moss, Will Travers, Mel Richardson, Colleen Kinsley, David Jay, Georgia Mason, Mark Bekoff, Melissa Groo, Andrea Turkalo, Katy Payne.

Many thanks go to our Board members: Coco Hall, Paul Klingenstein and Nidhi Singh.

In addition, we thank our many supporters whose kind words and assistance keep us moving forward.