The Elephant Whisperers

Parents need to know that The Elephant Whisperers is a short Indian docu about a Kattunayakan couple living in Tamil Nadu who care for baby elephants. In the Theppakadu Elephant Camp in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, two caregivers raise baby elephants that have been displaced, abandoned, or orphaned. Many elephants cannot reintegrate or be accepted back into their herd, so elephant caregivers are tasked by the Indian government to rehabilitate these elephants, some of whom are babies. This profile of two such caregivers, Bomman and Bellie, who raise these baby elephants like their own children, is sweet, heartfelt, and beautiful. Along the way, viewers learn that elephants are intelligent, emotional, and form familial bonds with their caregivers. No violence except for a brief scene that shows a dead elephant carcass and stories of how a baby elephant's tail was bitten off, how its mother was electrocuted, and how a woman's husband was killed by a tiger. A man often goes without a shirt. A couple gets married.