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Season 1

  • S01E01 Echo of the Elephants

    • BBC One

    David Attenborough and Cynthia Moss narrate an award-winning film charting eighteen months in the life of Echo, an elephant matriarch, and her family, who live in Kenya's Amboseli National Park.

  • S01E02 The Next Generation

    • BBC One

    Research zoologist Cynthia Moss has devoted years of time and energy following a female elephant she named Echo as she led her sprawling family around the Kenyan National Park of Amboseli, and this award-winning film by Martyn Colbeck chronicles 18 months of the small herd's sometimes harsh life.

  • S01E03 Africa's Forgotten Elephants

    • BBC One

    Following film-maker Cynthia Moss in her search for the unknown elephants of Africa.

  • S01E04 The Final Chapter?

    • BBC One

    Documentary following the latest chapter in the story of Echo the female elephant and her family in the Kenyan National Park of Amboseli. Scientist Cynthia Moss believes she is charting the 59-year-old matriarch's decline - until she makes a surprising discovery.

Additional Specials

  • SPECIAL 0x1 An Unforgettable Elephant

    • BBC One

    A celebration of the life and legacy of Echo, the world's most famous elephant, who was born in 1945 and died in 2009, and who Natural World followed for the last 20 years of her life. The timing of Echo's death could not be worse. The wise old matriarch had guided her family for half a century but the cruellest drought in living memory devastated her home under the shadow of Kilimanjaro. Will her 38-strong band of relatives and descendants overcome the loss of their leader, hunger and poachers to survive?