1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:03,720 SOME ARCHIVE IMAGES HUNTING 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.BZ 3 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:06,360 THEY CAN HURT THE SENSITIVITY OF THE SPECTATOR. 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.BZ 5 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:45,720 {\an8}Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Museum. 6 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:50,920 {\an8}The largest elephant is exhibited here that has never existed. 7 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,840 This is Dr. Steve Boyes. 8 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:01,480 You've been searching mysterious ghost elephants 9 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:05,520 who may be descendants of this one. 10 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,640 It's the first time I see this elephant, 11 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:31,960 this big elephant here at the Smithsonian. 12 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:33,960 {\an8}I have dreamed about it a thousand times. 13 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:37,240 {\an8}I carry with me a photo of this elephant. 14 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,840 {\an8}For ten years, I have been searching to their descendants 15 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,400 in the Angolan part that I have explored. 16 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:49,160 They call him Henry, which is a human name. 17 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:52,440 This is interesting because the nkangala people, 18 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,720 the Luchazis of that part of Angola, believe and speak 19 00:02:55,880 --> 00:03:00,560 of elephants leaving their bodies to become humans. 20 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:04,800 This elephant has abandoned his body. There's nothing in there. 21 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:06,680 Just its outer layer. 22 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:11,960 Its skull and fangs were too heavy for exhibition. 23 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:19,040 But let's see the real skull and the original fangs 24 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:23,400 to meet Henry, this big elephant, 25 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:29,360 the largest ever recorded, the largest land animal. 26 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:36,440 I can't believe I'm in front of him, the largest in history. 27 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:02,960 Here are the real fangs by Henry. 28 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:09,880 The Smithsonian allowed us to remove them and film them in your warehouse. 29 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:13,160 There are miles of shelves 30 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:19,280 with samples that are not exposed to the public. 31 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:22,920 And here is Henry's skull. 32 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:29,640 The 1955 label 33 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:35,600 that identifies the hunter, Josef Fénykövi, is still attached. 34 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:39,320 304615 AFRICAN LOXODONTA ANGOLA 48 KM 35 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,400 The African continent. 36 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:48,160 Henry was killed in Angola, not far from the highlands 37 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:53,880 where Steve Boyes has been searching the ghost elephants. 38 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:59,840 It's a plateau of more than 4000 feet of altitude. 39 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:04,360 Its eastern part is practically uninhabited. 40 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:08,360 It is known as the African Water Tower. 41 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:14,240 The locals give it another name: the Source of Life. 42 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:18,320 Annually, this water tower supplies ten times 43 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:23,840 the average consumption of fresh water of the state of California. 44 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:28,920 It is the origin of some of the main rivers of Africa. 45 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:34,480 In the north, the Congo which flows into the Atlantic, 46 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:41,160 to the east, the Zambezi which flows into the Indian Ocean. 47 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:47,480 The tributaries that go south they form the great swamps 48 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:50,760 from the Okavango Delta. 49 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:57,360 As the water descends from the tower, 50 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:01,400 valleys form on the plateau. 51 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:05,920 In these almost impassable swamps, 52 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:09,840 water accumulates in lakes and rivers. 53 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:32,040 What is unimaginable for us, the deserted highlands, 54 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:38,520 the great forest that reaches the horizon, Where does all this water come from? 55 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:41,960 has approximately the size of England. 56 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:47,720 Steve Boyes and his team they have discovered there 57 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:52,320 almost 200 new species for science. 58 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:56,880 Everything they have found It is exclusive to this place. 59 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:12,360 Look at us. 60 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:19,840 We accompany Steve Boyes to Namibia, 61 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:25,240 about 1600 kilometers south from the highlands of Angola. 62 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:31,440 For years he has been in contact with bushman trackers, 63 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:35,120 the best left in the world. 64 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:40,400 These tribes are the community Namibia's most marginalized, 65 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:44,960 although the government is working to improve this situation. 66 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:48,440 The terms "San" and "Bushman" arose 67 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:52,360 as derogatory labels In colonial times, 68 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:55,160 but now its use has become widespread. 69 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:57,240 Steve believes that these people 70 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:04,400 will make your dream of finding to the elusive ghost elephants. 71 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:11,560 Is it almost like chasing to the white whale? 72 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,880 The unknown, the mysterious? 73 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:23,000 It's a bit like Moby Dick, 74 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:28,480 I don't even know if elephants They exist just as I imagine them. 75 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,040 Could they be in your imagination? 76 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:37,040 That you're chasing ghosts that don't exist? 77 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:40,200 I look for ghosts that don't exist right now. 78 00:08:42,680 --> 00:08:44,760 I have spent my life... 79 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:49,920 Living a dream I never had. 80 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:55,040 It's like seeing Lake Cuanavale for the first time. 81 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,120 You are there, you feel that you've been there before, 82 00:08:58,280 --> 00:08:59,520 but no. 83 00:08:59,680 --> 00:09:02,520 It's like you dreamed it, but it has never happened. 84 00:09:02,680 --> 00:09:08,040 It's like you're in a dream. And these often come true. 85 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:17,040 We will find an elephant, maybe not as tall as a building 86 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:21,440 or like Henry from the Smithsonian, but we will find a male elephant. 87 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:29,360 Do you care if they are dreams or reality? 88 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:36,520 I don't care that they are a dream, because that's almost better. 89 00:09:36,680 --> 00:09:42,040 So they will always exist, because they can always be there. 90 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,200 I can search for them for the rest of my life. 91 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:49,120 And maybe one day, I'll find them. 92 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:53,760 It's like that. 93 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:59,880 Maybe that's the future of animals and wildlife, 94 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,160 May they be a dream, a memory. 95 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:27,360 {\an8}This is Xui, one of our teachers Bushman tracking. 96 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:33,720 {\an8}Their Ju/'hoansi language consists of clicking and clapping sounds 97 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:36,440 far from our phonetic system, 98 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:41,880 but their language is complex and rich in expressions. 99 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:46,600 Ju'hoansi means "real people." 100 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:49,680 I wonder: And who are we? 101 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:55,960 I still have a lot of hair on my chest, in the body. Am I half an animal? 102 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,480 When we have seen you coming, we have said: 103 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:19,600 "Here come the furry ones." We call you "furries." 104 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:22,240 But you are also people. 105 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:29,960 And you are also the "white" ones. 106 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:34,640 We also call you "the whites." 107 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:45,360 Imitation is an important part of San culture. 108 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:51,400 Xui proudly imitated like a kudu antelope 109 00:13:51,560 --> 00:13:55,680 he had fallen by his poisoned arrow. 110 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:32,680 {\an8}These bushmen of the Kalahari Desert 111 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:35,840 {\an8}from northern Namibia, They are the oldest, 112 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:41,920 {\an8}the oldest culture since the dawn of humanity. 113 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:45,360 They enter a trance state. 114 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:51,080 Thus, the spirit of the elephants can enter them. 115 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:06,960 The dance lasts all night. 116 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:29,560 {\an8}This is Kobus and he will come to Angola as a tracker. 117 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:34,160 {\an8}Last night he fainted at the elephant dance. 118 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:40,080 I ask him if the spirit An elephant seized him. 119 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:56,680 "Yes, I went into a trance. I felt something enter my body. 120 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:59,760 It could have been the spirit of an elephant, 121 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:02,840 but I can't describe it accurately. 122 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,440 I'm still learning to be a healer." 123 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:16,240 {\an8}Xui Dawid is the third tracker to join the expedition to Angola 124 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:21,720 to find the elephants. He is the only one who speaks English. 125 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:25,360 - In Angola I saw the marks on the tree. - Yes. 126 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:28,560 Do you know what an elephant has been due to height? 127 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:32,680 They scratch the body against the trees. 128 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:33,880 - Yes. - Like this. 129 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:38,600 What is the most itchy part? The shoulder or the back? 130 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,000 - The shoulder. - The shoulder blades. 131 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:42,240 - Yes. - Okay. 132 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:47,440 Yes, and the head and the face. They do it like this. 133 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,040 - To the tree. - To the tree, yes. 134 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:54,440 I would like to quickly introduce you to Kerllen Costa. 135 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,520 He is from Angola and has been working 136 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:02,400 with the Luchazis for more than a decade in the Angolan highlands. 137 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:07,040 This is Gary Trower. He has worked with these towns, 138 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:11,280 the San peoples, for a decade. 139 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:15,040 There is a long journey up to the highlands 140 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:17,520 from here, a week driving. 141 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:18,960 More than 1600 km. 142 00:18:19,120 --> 00:18:22,960 And of course the teachers crawlers are nervous. 143 00:18:23,120 --> 00:18:26,440 Gary will travel with them 144 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:28,600 and Kerllen will receive them there. 145 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:33,640 It is important that we spend time with teachers and their families. 146 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:41,680 We were curious to know What poison does Xui use to hunt? 147 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:48,320 Nos llevó al monte junto con Ricardo, our translator, and Gary. 148 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:56,640 Xui is looking for a bush that has lost its foliage. 149 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:00,000 According to him, this is a sign that a small beetle 150 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:05,520 the size of our ladybug has laid her eggs. 151 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:09,880 Newly hatched larvae devour all the leaves, 152 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:13,360 then they drop to the ground, 153 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:17,880 where they are buried deep in the sand. 154 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:21,600 Here they form cocoons. 155 00:19:24,120 --> 00:19:28,760 Xui is looking for these cocoons. 156 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:50,600 The larvae inside They are so poisonous 157 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:55,960 that some of them They would even kill an elephant. 158 00:19:56,120 --> 00:20:02,120 Xui must not have any cuts or scratch on the hand, 159 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:08,040 or within one day, He will be dead as a stone. 160 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:15,120 We have a small mortar which is used to grind them. 161 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:17,600 Once you have mixed the poison here, 162 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:21,000 you make a small spatula with wood, 163 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:24,280 and then you start spreading it in this brown part. 164 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:27,080 From here to there the poison is applied. 165 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:29,320 The poison is never applied to the tip, 166 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,040 in case you accidentally scratch yourself or you cut yourself. 167 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:35,000 It is clearly seen which is only in this section. 168 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:39,480 Xui was about to die for this poison when he tried 169 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:45,040 break up a fight between his older brother and another young man. 170 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:51,760 He got between the two and was stabbed with a poisoned arrow. 171 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:56,480 There is a generalized idealization that these bushmen, 172 00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:01,040 as pure children of nature, They live in harmony. 173 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:06,800 But, as everywhere, There is jealousy, violence and murder. 174 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:09,160 What did he do when he was poisoned? 175 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:12,040 What was your reaction and how did he save his life? 176 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:14,840 They made deep cuts on the shoulder 177 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,800 and along the entire arm 178 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:21,240 to expel the poison with blood. 179 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:25,480 His entire arm atrophied and it took him years 180 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:30,280 in recovering the strength of the other arm. 181 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:37,440 {\an8}It is very poisonous. Care With the cuts, I know what I'm saying. 182 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:40,760 I was in the laboratory and I tried to place 183 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,640 the cap to the needle after completing the extraction, 184 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,960 but it went through the gauntlet and he pricked me twice. 185 00:21:49,120 --> 00:21:51,800 I knew it was starting to burn immediately, 186 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:57,280 and immediately I felt an intense burning. It burned me a lot. 187 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,480 You didn't cut your hand nor the finger. You still have them. 188 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,640 Luckily there was a faucet in the laboratory. 189 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:06,520 I took off my glove. I put my finger under the tap 190 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:09,320 and I made sure that the blood did not pass. 191 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,520 I did this repeatedly 192 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,920 and I let the blood fall, while rinsing it. 193 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:17,880 If the poison enters in the blood flow, 194 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:19,920 It will go up the arm above. 195 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:24,680 The only way to save you is cutting you up 196 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:28,200 to be expelled before reaching the heart. 197 00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:32,280 What type of poison is it? Is it a nerve poison? Or what is it? 198 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,520 It works in different ways. 199 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:37,440 The larvae have a hemolytic venom 200 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,040 that breaks down red blood cells. 201 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:45,160 It can be seen in the urine of animals. 202 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,760 urine turns black from broken red blood cells 203 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,200 that are expelled from the body. 204 00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:56,320 On the other hand, It also contains saponins, 205 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,480 and if the poison reaches the lungs, 206 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,120 They start to foam and bubble. 207 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,120 The animal cannot breathe because the air tube, 208 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,920 the nose, the nasal passages and the mouth fills with bubbles. 209 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,560 As the arrows are poisoned, 210 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:16,240 Xui's bow is small. 211 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,800 It is one of the best trackers. 212 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:26,000 Can read footprints in the sand like we read a newspaper. 213 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,960 But he reads with all his senses. 214 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:33,240 Hear an alarmed bird 215 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:37,600 and he knows there may be a leopard nearby. 216 00:23:47,120 --> 00:23:52,120 Smell the air in search of the smell of elephants. 217 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,480 Feel the earth vibrate 218 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:02,760 by the hooves of fleeing roan antelopes. 219 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:26,440 Xui is very good at imitating to a little antelope in distress 220 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,080 in order to attract the mother. 221 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,520 But it could also attract to a leopard. 222 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:36,560 You have to move very carefully before making that noise. 223 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:45,480 {\an8}Kerllen Costa is Angolan. I dreamed of being a professional soccer player. 224 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:49,840 but then it became in anthropologist. 225 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,560 I was born and raised in Angola. 226 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:54,840 My childhood passed 227 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,480 during the heyday of the Angolan civil war. 228 00:24:57,640 --> 00:24:59,680 Since my father was an army pilot, 229 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:01,600 I spent many hours 230 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,120 next to him in the cabin from his helicopter, 231 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:06,440 fighting so much in the war, 232 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,960 like trying to escape and save his family. 233 00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:15,120 And on these trips, I witnessed and I heard many stories, 234 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:20,320 many atrocities that no person should never see or hear. 235 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:25,600 This was the Angolan civil war at its peak. 236 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:30,400 The helicopters were strafing to the elephants from afar, 237 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,240 the soldiers were shooting from the boats 238 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,400 to the hippos in the river, 239 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:37,880 the soldiers running through the forest 240 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,760 they shot all the animals that they saw 241 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:48,880 Se produjo una división between biodiversity and humans, 242 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:51,840 because not only humans were affected, 243 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,440 because it is one of the countries with more mines. 244 00:25:55,600 --> 00:26:00,520 The mines also killed animals. 245 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,480 They were intended for tanks, trucks and other things, 246 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,760 but they also affected animals. 247 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,360 Therefore, these Angolan refugees, 248 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:14,120 humans and animals, They dispersed throughout the continent. 249 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:19,800 And this seems to be global, It does not happen only in Angola, 250 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:25,040 where you see humans fighting against creation. 251 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:30,800 It was also observed in the United States, for example, at the end of the 19th century. 252 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:36,160 Los trenes atravesaban lentamente the heart of America, 253 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,680 with people inside shooting buffaloes 254 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:41,440 and everything they saw. 255 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,800 Not to eat, but for the pleasure of shooting. 256 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:49,000 As if man had a mission to destroy that 257 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,800 of what it is part of, of its essence, 258 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,640 what is life, What is biodiversity? 259 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:58,720 This is also represented by the elephant Fénykövi, 260 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:02,800 who was killed by Fénykövi, and which, to date, 261 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,920 It is the largest elephant in the world. 262 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:11,280 This is an Angolan citizen, an Angolan elephant. 263 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:16,200 They shot him for his majesty, for its greatness. 264 00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:22,160 And because of this greatness, not only this elephant, 265 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,080 but all other living beings, 266 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:29,520 They are destroyed by humans. 267 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:39,080 {\an8}These images are from Africa Addio, an Italian film from 1966. 268 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:44,880 {\an8}At that time, Big game hunting was still in fashion. 269 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,800 Today our respect by nature it has changed. 270 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:45,800 Even a huge fallen tree It has its local guardians. 271 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:51,640 We have permission from the guardians 272 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:57,640 to visit this amazing baobab of a thousand years. 273 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,920 The ground is trampled for the elephants 274 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:08,000 that feed on parts of the baobab, like this one here. 275 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,000 There are footprints from a few days ago. 276 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:24,520 Here it is, it's from a male. 277 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:26,960 It measures about fifty centimeters. 278 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,960 If you multiply the longest diameter times seven, 279 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,640 you get the height of his shoulders. 280 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,080 So it's 2.7 meters tall. 281 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:40,320 A very large male next to the breeding herd. 282 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:44,440 It is not part of them, I would only be here to visit them. 283 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:50,040 The Smithsonian elephant Fénykövi, 284 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:54,120 the largest land animal on record, 285 00:31:54,280 --> 00:32:00,320 His footprint was that big. 286 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:04,400 Now you can compare it with this. 287 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:09,240 This is your front foot, that supports the head and its fangs. 288 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:13,680 But the first footprint that Josef Fénykövi found 289 00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:20,800 It was something else, It was fifty centimeters. 290 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:24,120 So that foot was that big. 291 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:32,000 He thought it was something new, 292 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,600 a mammoth, a mastodon. 293 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,880 {\an8}One like you've never seen before in Africa, nor in the world. 294 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:42,160 {\an8}Found it on his first expedition in 1955. 295 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,480 They found two males together under a tree 296 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:52,640 They shot him 17 high caliber bullets to the largest, the Fénykövi, 297 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:56,560 They later called him Henry. 298 00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:00,960 They chased him for 15 km in a jeep until he collapsed. 299 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:04,760 And then, when you skin it, 300 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:09,360 They discovered that he had a bullet flintlock rifle, 301 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,480 on the front thigh. 302 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:16,760 In the 18th and 19th centuries, were given to tribal leaders 303 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,640 for his support of the ivory trade 304 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:23,800 and the slave trade in that part of Portuguese Africa. 305 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:29,800 So this big elephant He must have been more than a hundred years old. 306 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:35,640 An elephant that no one had imagined that could exist, an elephant, 307 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:40,560 that today we do not understand as it is in the museum, 308 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,240 one that could be a new subspecies. 309 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:47,240 The Luchazis have spoken to us of these elephants, 310 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:51,560 have you seen these elephants of the forest with red eyes. 311 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:54,840 So we really don't know. 312 00:33:55,000 --> 00:34:01,560 And I'm here to ask for help, the same help that Fénykövi had, 313 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:06,440 to the bushman tracking masters, to help us 314 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:10,600 to Kerllen and the Luchazis, to find Fénykövi, Henry, 315 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,040 to Henry's descendants. 316 00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:16,720 We will take tissue samples to compare with those of Smithsonian, 317 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:18,600 because when I get there, 318 00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:22,360 The skin alone weighed two tons. 319 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:26,280 They used five tons of material to build the elephant, 320 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,840 but the skull was bigger 321 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,280 than any recorded skull in any museum. 322 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,320 And the fangs were too heavy 323 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,280 for the exhibition, so they are stored. 324 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:42,280 We can extract your DNA to compare it with those of today. 325 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,080 {\an8}It is interesting to see how the media 326 00:34:48,240 --> 00:34:51,120 {\an8}reported on this hunt at that time. 327 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:56,560 {\an8}Here, on the left, Fénykövi poses in front of his trophy. 328 00:34:56,720 --> 00:35:01,640 {\an8}It was "Sports Illustrated" who honored the athlete 329 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,400 {\an8}that had established a new world record. 330 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:08,240 {\an8}Fénykövi made meticulous measurements. 331 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:13,600 Here is your sketch with detailed dimensions. 332 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:17,640 At the top right, includes an affidavit 333 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:21,560 of the veracity of your data. 334 00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:25,440 The emphasis is on proof of the new record 335 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:29,720 that has never been surpassed to this day. 336 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:42,680 The ghost elephants They are great giants 337 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,400 who live in these high altitude forests. 338 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:47,920 They are not above 1200 meters. 339 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,760 They are up there, in the sky. 340 00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,720 The land of the world's land, 341 00:35:53,880 --> 00:36:00,480 Lisima lya Mwono, The Source of Life is this place. 342 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:05,120 It's the Kalahari, but elevated towards the sky like a temple. 343 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:11,880 Underneath there is a... I don't know, what is it called? 344 00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,160 A kimberlite supercluster. 345 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,120 Diamonds, minerals and gold 346 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,960 that push him towards the sky. 347 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,000 There is a gravitational anomaly, 348 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,640 there is too much gravity. 349 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,360 It goes up very fast. 350 00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,720 has raised this desert towards the sky, 351 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,400 where it has formed fog belts. 352 00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:34,400 Every morning there is fog on the lakes that shouldn't be there. 353 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:38,040 It's a place for lost things, like us. 354 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,600 It's full of magic, whatever that is. 355 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:47,000 I've been to a place where a river disappears underground, 356 00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:51,640 I don't know where it's going, a troubled river towards a dark channel. 357 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:10,640 I have heard that finding to the elephants 358 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,680 it means finding each other to ourselves. 359 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:18,160 But do we really learn something about them? 360 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:21,560 I'm not going to learn anything of a ghost elephant. 361 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:26,760 Maybe it's better May it continue to be a dream. 362 00:37:28,720 --> 00:37:33,320 But humans chase dreams. 363 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,240 We share dreams with each other. 364 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:40,320 And if this stays like an eternal dream, 365 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,680 every september it would go up to the sources that go 366 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:47,520 and I would sit in silence, as in Vundumtiki, 367 00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:50,840 maybe that's better. 368 00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:50,480 Tell us how old it is the san people. 369 00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:56,840 In science there is the principle of genetic diversity. 370 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,400 The San of the Kalahari or the bushmen, 371 00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:03,680 They have the greatest temporal depth, 372 00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:08,600 so they are the first people. 373 00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:14,400 We are all descendants from a small founding town 374 00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:19,280 of Kalahari bushmen, 375 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:22,120 who survived the Ice Age, 376 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:26,440 and they hid ostrich eggs in the desert, 377 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:31,080 they hunted with poison and they investigated where to go. 378 00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:35,280 Some headed north, others to the south, towards the coast. 379 00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:39,240 And if you follow genetics, they walked down the coast to Australia, 380 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:43,200 because the following markers are the aboriginal peoples there. 381 00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:48,880 So they walked in a straight line, and then to the rest of the world. 382 00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,600 That is, we are their direct descendants. 383 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,560 They are our direct ancestors. 384 00:39:54,720 --> 00:39:56,680 Yes. 385 00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:03,960 It's strange that people think that are different. 386 00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:09,800 They are the awakening of ourselves, the awakening of the human soul. 387 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:17,560 The dance, the ritual, culture, knowledge, 388 00:40:17,720 --> 00:40:21,720 the fire and the stone, the bow and the arrow, the medicine and the poison. 389 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:28,440 Technology starts here. This is us. 390 00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:42,520 The Ju/'hoansi bushmen live in an egalitarian society. 391 00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:49,320 Xui has hunted a kudu, but he, The supplier does not boast about it. 392 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:54,640 Rather he despises himself and despises his loot. 393 00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:00,120 Women do as if they didn't see it. 394 00:42:04,720 --> 00:42:10,480 The boy here, the son of Xui, will distribute the meat. 395 00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:29,400 Life here is, in many ways, ancestral, 396 00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:34,880 although the bushmen They use mobile phones easily. 397 00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,800 But I recognize myself. 398 00:42:59,960 --> 00:43:04,960 Have a good talk with your child at the end of the day... 399 00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:11,800 Get up in the morning without fixed plans or obligations. 400 00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:19,440 Time seems to not exist. 401 00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:45,160 This old man from the Nhoma village 402 00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:50,640 spends much of the day arranging his musical instrument. 403 00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:54,120 I know I shouldn't idealize this, 404 00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:57,320 but I feel, surrounded by chickens, 405 00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:01,160 that there cannot be nothing better than this. 406 00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:39,320 - Hello. -How are you? 407 00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:41,520 Our three Namibian trackers 408 00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:44,960 they are distributed through different villages. 409 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:51,280 To obtain scientific support, A visitor arrives at Xui Village. 410 00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:57,040 This is Jordana Meyer, specialist in DNA biodiversity. 411 00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:02,360 You have come here to provide training to the team of trackers. 412 00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:05,920 {\an8}So we want to get those outer cells, 413 00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:10,440 {\an8}the external DNA that remains of the elephant. 414 00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:14,280 We take the sample with the swab. Maybe they know because of COVID. 415 00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:17,600 I'll show you in the field when we find poop. 416 00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:23,600 We will take a sample from outside and we'll put it in this little jar. 417 00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:28,840 And, again, the same fluid, the liquid that preserves DNA. 418 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:35,880 And that will tell us yes this elephant is from Angola. 419 00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:40,680 Yes. 420 00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:44,040 We might use these darts. 421 00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:50,920 They extract a small piece of elephant tissue. 422 00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:53,680 And we'll take that little piece 423 00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:55,840 and we will put it here to preserve it. 424 00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:59,320 This device looks promising. 425 00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:03,680 But later, in the highlands it will be useless. 426 00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:08,000 The team ventures now 427 00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:13,440 to look for a sample of excrement of the local elephant population. 428 00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:18,680 We are picking up two things. One will be from the interior. 429 00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:21,640 we want it like this because it is not contaminated. 430 00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:25,840 As we did yesterday, I'm going to ask Someone to hold this for me. 431 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:31,640 Remove the cover and hold it. I'll put it in and put it back in. 432 00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:35,360 It's called DNA Shield. It is a preservative for DNA, 433 00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:39,400 so once it's there, It is very stable. 434 00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:46,000 Until it looks something like this, Can everyone see it? 435 00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:51,400 Pretty dirty. It gets quite dirty. Okay, then we open. 436 00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:54,880 And very carefully, There is a breaking point here. 437 00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:58,000 And it breaks itself, okay? 438 00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:05,480 This is what the application will look like. 439 00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:10,480 And then we can go on to register all the information here. 440 00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:14,840 - Yes please. - Let's see how it goes. 441 00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:20,080 - You already did it. - Yes. 442 00:47:20,240 --> 00:47:21,240 Very good. 443 00:47:27,720 --> 00:47:30,760 Why do we do this? 444 00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,600 We look for the elephants and we didn't get it. 445 00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:39,800 Helicopters, camera traps, hundreds of them. 446 00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:43,560 Acoustic sensors that detect them. I haven't seen any yet. 447 00:47:43,720 --> 00:47:48,280 Now we have 62 photos. The first one took us seven years. 448 00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:05,360 We seek help of the ju/'hoansi tracking masters, 449 00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:11,160 Xui, Xui Dawid and Kobus, three of the last living teachers, 450 00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,320 the last people that can identify 451 00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:17,280 to an elephant only by its footprints, 452 00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:21,200 who can read this landscape and the sands of Angola. 453 00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:24,680 The sands of the highlands They are the same as these. 454 00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:27,600 You can read them as if they were a newspaper. 455 00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:32,440 This year, over the next six weeks 456 00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:38,320 or two months, we'll see a ghost elephant, a giant, 457 00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:41,760 the legendary elephants that the Luchazis mention, 458 00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:44,400 that are in the most remote valleys 459 00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:47,120 from the Source of Life, Lisima lya Mwono, 460 00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:52,600 thanks to these Ju/'hoansi teachers. That's why we are here. 461 00:49:45,720 --> 00:49:49,360 I'm going to Angola, and everyone He says it's good. 462 00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:51,600 And everyone is happy. 463 00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:55,960 My wife hasn't said goodbye when leaving for Angola. 464 00:49:56,120 --> 00:50:01,920 He told me "work well and we'll see you when you get back." 465 00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:36,480 In Nhoma, Kobus village, 466 00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:41,680 Angolan trackers Luchazi They join the expedition. 467 00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:45,840 From now on, They have an important role 468 00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:48,520 as guides in their homeland, 469 00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:51,600 in the highlands where these elephants are hiding. 470 00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:54,560 We are with the Angolans. We will be very safe. 471 00:50:54,720 --> 00:50:55,720 Yes. 472 00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:10,520 Today we are going to Angola, so we will say goodbye. 473 00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:25,080 The village chief, here to the left of Kobus, 474 00:51:25,240 --> 00:51:30,120 gives permission and his blessing for Kobus to leave. 475 00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:16,280 To Xui and the San trackers, This is now a big unknown. 476 00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:20,920 The presence of the Angolans relieves uncertainty 477 00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:27,440 of Kobus and Xui Dawid as they enter in unknown territory. 478 00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:33,040 The Angolan border marks the outer limit of his world. 479 00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:10,280 The expedition now enters an area 480 00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:14,960 that was a battlefield during the Angolan civil war 481 00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:18,760 which lasted for 27 years. 482 00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:48,880 In the city of Kuito, Steve Boyes meets 483 00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:52,040 with a convoy from the Lisima foundation, 484 00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:55,000 an NGO that he founded himself 485 00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:59,600 for conservation long term in Angola. 486 00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:06,400 Here, the convoy increases to nine vehicles, 487 00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:13,560 two armored support trucks for mines and twelve motorcycles, 488 00:55:13,720 --> 00:55:16,080 all of this in logistical support 489 00:55:16,240 --> 00:55:19,120 to the camp search that they will establish. 490 00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:48,200 The convoy is heading to the city of Cangamba 491 00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:53,440 to have an audience with the king of the Nkangala. 492 00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:57,920 The spirit of the king is found with them. 493 00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:09,480 {\an8}I request permission to approach the king 494 00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:12,880 {\an8}and give him two gifts. 495 00:57:13,040 --> 00:57:16,640 I would like to show you two photos, one of an elephant 496 00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:21,040 which is in Washington D.C., the capital of the United States, 497 00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:27,160 and the elephant skull to the right that is held there. 498 00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:29,600 We believe that the last hiding place 499 00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:33,200 for the descendants of this elephant is in this area. 500 00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:38,400 And we saw the footprints of male elephants, one very large. 501 00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:45,440 That's why we are here, to understand this animal. 502 00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:10,200 We request your help to make a bigger arrow 503 00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:14,160 and a much bigger bow to be away from the elephants. 504 00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:20,760 Can I bring this closer to you so you can see? which is not an arrowhead. 505 00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:25,600 It's something that will penetrate like this on the skin and it will come off. 506 00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:37,600 Put it there in front. He'll pick it up and take a look. 507 00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:45,000 Okay. 508 00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:39,240 It is a special inherited knife for the fighters 509 00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:41,720 with geometry that they themselves have created. 510 00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:45,600 It's the same as the amulet that he carries in his hand. 511 00:59:45,760 --> 00:59:50,640 It is for protection, not physical but spiritual. 512 00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:56,640 And he asks you if you could, In the world you travel through, 513 00:59:56,800 --> 01:00:00,080 let's see if it's possible 514 01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:06,720 find something similar but maybe twice as big. 515 01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:13,080 And he would take it as a symbol of your respect. 516 01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:37,640 It's a hard seven days of travel 517 01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:41,280 from Namibia to the highlands of Angola. 518 01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:46,240 There are no roads, nor bridges in a landscape 519 01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:50,320 which is the size of England. 520 01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:54,840 We must leave behind the four by four. 521 01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:30,360 Now it is about 160 km by motorcycle, with more river crossings ahead. 522 01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:23,280 The locals have found with crocodiles in this river. 523 01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:25,960 Steve is worried, 524 01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:28,440 but they have assured him that crocodiles 525 01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:32,040 they only come out after dark. 526 01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:48,520 We follow the footprints of members of the Luchazi tribe 527 01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:51,400 who spend the dry season here 528 01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:54,960 hunting antelope for their meat and skins. 529 01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:20,080 We have set up a base camp. 530 01:04:20,240 --> 01:04:25,920 The Namibian trackers They have integrated well with the Luhazis. 531 01:04:26,120 --> 01:04:27,520 Oh, man. 532 01:04:27,680 --> 01:04:31,240 We leave the motorcycles behind 533 01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:35,440 so as not to disturb the elephants. 534 01:04:35,600 --> 01:04:40,440 The next 50 kilometers They must be explored on foot. 535 01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:55,720 The first signs appear of the presence of elephants. 536 01:04:55,880 --> 01:04:57,240 Yes. 537 01:04:58,240 --> 01:05:01,600 The footprints in the sand are recent. 538 01:05:10,080 --> 01:05:15,760 Xui has sighted the trail of a solitary elephant. 539 01:05:38,360 --> 01:05:43,120 He has found a tree with recent brands. 540 01:05:43,280 --> 01:05:47,200 The elephant has punctured the bark with the fang 541 01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:50,720 and then he rubbed the side against her. 542 01:06:06,040 --> 01:06:12,320 {\an8}Elias Ngunga, the Luchazi tracker, has found fresh poop. 543 01:06:13,160 --> 01:06:19,520 Let's get everything out of here. Passes through the rectum. 544 01:06:19,680 --> 01:06:24,080 And look at that. We are reaching it. 545 01:06:24,240 --> 01:06:28,360 There are many possibilities to obtain a complete DNA sequence 546 01:06:28,520 --> 01:06:30,720 from the mucus it contains. 547 01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:33,200 Mainly wood, just wood. 548 01:06:33,360 --> 01:06:38,080 Steve also collects a sample of the manure content, 549 01:06:38,240 --> 01:06:40,800 mostly roots and bark. 550 01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:46,160 This will give us information about elephant habitat. 551 01:06:48,760 --> 01:06:52,480 Steve, the scientist, You have to hurry. 552 01:06:52,640 --> 01:06:56,240 You have to share your treasure with dung beetles 553 01:06:56,400 --> 01:06:59,920 which appear almost instantly. 554 01:07:07,880 --> 01:07:12,600 The beetle, in turn, It has to compete with the flies. 555 01:07:15,320 --> 01:07:20,480 This beetle was sacred for the ancient Egyptians. 556 01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:26,480 I had the task of rolling the sun across the sky. 557 01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:37,360 The nearest camp to the ghost elephants 558 01:07:37,520 --> 01:07:40,720 it is used by Luchazi hunters, 559 01:07:40,880 --> 01:07:43,000 with smoky bonfires 560 01:07:43,160 --> 01:07:46,760 and antelope meat drying everywhere. 561 01:07:50,040 --> 01:07:53,960 They are preparing the arrowhead to collect a sample 562 01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:58,320 from the skin of a ghost elephant. 563 01:08:32,040 --> 01:08:34,120 {\an8}This is António Luhoke, 564 01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:40,240 {\an8}the Luchazi hunter who has helped Steve on many expeditions. 565 01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:09,840 The next day, they found footprints of a very large elephant. 566 01:09:24,680 --> 01:09:26,080 This one here. Try that one. 567 01:09:36,080 --> 01:09:38,560 - That's the highest point. - Yes. 568 01:09:38,720 --> 01:09:44,760 Wow. There is a great friction. Is it shoulder height? 569 01:09:50,480 --> 01:09:53,160 They are about 2.7 or 3 meters. 570 01:09:53,320 --> 01:09:56,960 It's like a big Okavango elephant, like the one we saw. 571 01:09:59,680 --> 01:10:01,680 But is it the top or this? 572 01:10:03,040 --> 01:10:06,480 -Below? So about 30 cm more. - Yes. 573 01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:13,120 And is it a male or a female? 574 01:10:18,520 --> 01:10:21,160 It must be a male. 575 01:10:22,160 --> 01:10:25,040 They think it's a pack of 16 elephants. 576 01:10:25,200 --> 01:10:28,160 And there are several large males walking ahead. 577 01:10:28,320 --> 01:10:33,560 One in front and three or four to the sides to protect the rest. 578 01:10:33,720 --> 01:10:38,160 And there are one or two who The fangs have already been broken. 579 01:10:38,320 --> 01:10:42,480 And believe this is one of the four that are on the sides, 580 01:10:42,640 --> 01:10:45,040 paving the way for the flock to come. 581 01:10:45,200 --> 01:10:50,880 They have said that this part is at that height and the shoulder 582 01:10:51,040 --> 01:10:52,320 - Shoulder. - There. 583 01:10:52,480 --> 01:10:54,560 Yes. 584 01:10:55,920 --> 01:10:58,240 - And it moves like this. - Oh. 585 01:11:02,320 --> 01:11:06,320 It measures about 3.35 meters. Bigger than Botswana. 586 01:11:06,480 --> 01:11:07,840 What's big there? 587 01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:10,080 Three meters. There are no bigger ones. 588 01:11:10,240 --> 01:11:12,680 An elephant of seven or eight tons. 589 01:11:12,840 --> 01:11:18,440 The Fénykövi weighed 13 tons. So you're talking about a... yeah. 590 01:11:18,600 --> 01:11:23,600 -From nine to ten? - Yes, one of nine to ten tons. 591 01:11:25,360 --> 01:11:32,160 Xui and Xui Dawid discover something else that everyone has overlooked. 592 01:11:39,680 --> 01:11:45,640 This elephant hair will be part of forensic evidence. 593 01:12:00,280 --> 01:12:06,840 Xui explains here how the elephant has moved to the wet swamp. 594 01:12:10,040 --> 01:12:12,360 He obviously heard us coming. 595 01:12:12,520 --> 01:12:17,080 Since the great rain, after the little rain, 596 01:12:17,240 --> 01:12:19,720 walked here, In fact, he ran here. 597 01:12:19,880 --> 01:12:20,960 Do you see this footprint? 598 01:12:21,120 --> 01:12:24,800 He ran, not along the canal, but straight to Tony's. 599 01:12:24,960 --> 01:12:28,320 We have two cameras so I think that the first one will go there. 600 01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:32,480 Okay. 601 01:12:36,440 --> 01:12:38,000 Here or... 602 01:12:38,160 --> 01:12:42,280 For very sophisticated let this gadget be, 603 01:12:42,440 --> 01:12:46,000 he has never captured any of the ghost elephants. 604 01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:52,920 In the end, it will all come down to to mobile phones. 605 01:13:26,840 --> 01:13:30,520 Among the companions of the night There is this spider. 606 01:13:30,680 --> 01:13:33,560 It is poisonous and the young ones that swarm 607 01:13:33,720 --> 01:13:38,160 on their back they are just as poisonous. 608 01:14:05,280 --> 01:14:10,040 The spider was strange enough, but the next morning, 609 01:14:10,200 --> 01:14:14,480 I thought I was still dreaming with demons. 610 01:14:55,000 --> 01:15:00,480 No, at the beginning we were six days behind him. 611 01:15:00,640 --> 01:15:03,640 One day behind breeding herd. 612 01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:06,800 Yesterday we were right behind of the flock, chasing them. 613 01:15:06,960 --> 01:15:10,240 They are smelling us with the wind. The team has turned around. 614 01:15:10,400 --> 01:15:13,520 Now they're probably with them. 615 01:15:13,680 --> 01:15:17,200 We are two or three hours away from this one. We are reaching it. 616 01:15:19,480 --> 01:15:22,880 Then unexpected luck arrives. 617 01:15:23,040 --> 01:15:29,800 Every morning they divide into teams. Here, Elías and António. 618 01:15:29,960 --> 01:15:33,320 The camera filmed them alone when leaving camp 619 01:15:33,480 --> 01:15:36,280 and then joined Steve and Kerllen. 620 01:15:36,440 --> 01:15:38,640 I think it was in his pocket. 621 01:15:45,840 --> 01:15:48,200 Suddenly, Elías and António come 622 01:15:48,360 --> 01:15:50,920 to the greatest Of all the ghost elephants, 623 01:15:51,080 --> 01:15:54,880 a vague gray shape among the leaves. 624 01:15:55,040 --> 01:15:59,160 António only has time to turn on your mobile camera. 625 01:16:00,040 --> 01:16:04,120 And then he rushes to look for a better position. 626 01:16:12,240 --> 01:16:17,240 And now, just for a few seconds, we can glimpse it. 627 01:16:19,520 --> 01:16:23,680 Then the male elephant leaves. 628 01:16:26,360 --> 01:16:29,080 -Did they take a photo? - They took a photo. 629 01:16:29,240 --> 01:16:31,080 Can I see the photo? 630 01:16:34,720 --> 01:16:36,520 Was this? 631 01:16:36,680 --> 01:16:42,560 Was the search worth it? of ten years and the arduous expedition? 632 01:16:42,720 --> 01:16:47,480 Was this the test? Was this the truth? 633 01:16:47,640 --> 01:16:52,920 In some ways, yes, but at best of the cases, the truth of the accountant. 634 01:16:53,080 --> 01:16:56,080 Yes, ghost elephants exist. 635 01:16:56,240 --> 01:16:58,600 We have the forensic evidence, 636 01:16:58,760 --> 01:17:03,920 since one of them was captured in a video without quality. 637 01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:11,760 This one? 638 01:17:12,840 --> 01:17:16,480 Without a doubt it was the male elephant bigger. 639 01:17:16,640 --> 01:17:18,920 The height of his shoulders indicates 640 01:17:19,080 --> 01:17:22,840 it's about the elephant largest known in Africa 641 01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:27,080 and, therefore, the terrestrial mammal largest in the world. 642 01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:41,440 Two days of rest. 643 01:18:14,960 --> 01:18:18,240 And Steve is lucky. 644 01:18:18,400 --> 01:18:21,360 I just told Gary and Xui we heard an elephant 645 01:18:21,520 --> 01:18:23,520 above this ridge. 646 01:18:23,680 --> 01:18:26,120 Let's see if we find traces and see which one it was. 647 01:18:49,360 --> 01:18:52,320 After less than two hours, 648 01:18:52,480 --> 01:18:55,920 San trackers see an elephant. 649 01:19:21,360 --> 01:19:24,800 Our professional camera he stayed a little behind, 650 01:19:25,120 --> 01:19:30,320 so this was recorded by Steve with his cell phone. 651 01:20:01,160 --> 01:20:04,960 Xui shoots his arrow carefully. 652 01:20:24,400 --> 01:20:30,600 They recover the tip of the arrow who collects the DNA sample. 653 01:20:44,520 --> 01:20:47,080 I couldn't see it well. 654 01:20:47,240 --> 01:20:49,560 I think it bounced or failed. 655 01:20:49,720 --> 01:20:53,680 When falling to the ground, It has been filled with sand. 656 01:20:53,840 --> 01:20:56,400 The elephant was here. 657 01:20:58,000 --> 01:20:59,480 It fell off its ass, right? 658 01:20:59,640 --> 01:21:00,840 Yes. 659 01:21:04,760 --> 01:21:06,520 Where is the elephant now? 660 01:21:06,680 --> 01:21:08,600 He made the elephant flee, 661 01:21:08,760 --> 01:21:13,320 so it was definitively abandoned the idea of the arrow. 662 01:21:14,400 --> 01:21:16,200 How it looks. 663 01:21:16,360 --> 01:21:21,480 But Steve got his reward. Got a good photo. 664 01:21:24,520 --> 01:21:25,960 This is... 665 01:21:42,440 --> 01:21:44,480 Steve, Steve. 666 01:21:44,640 --> 01:21:48,160 Still excited, Xui tells how he alerted Steve 667 01:21:48,320 --> 01:21:51,400 about the elephant. 668 01:21:58,880 --> 01:22:01,920 After calming down from the initial excitement, 669 01:22:02,080 --> 01:22:05,480 Steve thought again 670 01:22:05,640 --> 01:22:07,600 otherwise it would have been better 671 01:22:07,760 --> 01:22:11,520 never having met with the ghost elephants. 672 01:22:11,680 --> 01:22:14,960 Wasn't it better for them to stay like a rainbow? 673 01:22:15,120 --> 01:22:17,560 Like a mirage in the sky? 674 01:22:17,720 --> 01:22:21,760 However, it was found with a real one. 675 01:22:22,840 --> 01:22:25,520 This reality was undeniable. 676 01:22:25,680 --> 01:22:29,760 Steve would have to live with his success. 677 01:22:33,760 --> 01:22:40,200 One is alone, in the water tower, in this place. 678 01:22:43,240 --> 01:22:47,920 But another reality is coming: the rain. 679 01:22:48,080 --> 01:22:52,080 The expedition had to return before the swamps 680 01:22:52,240 --> 01:22:55,960 and the rivers turned impassable. 681 01:22:56,120 --> 01:22:58,480 The source of life. 682 01:23:27,720 --> 01:23:32,560 Now the time has come to return and secure the loot, 683 01:23:32,720 --> 01:23:37,480 biological samples of the ghost elephants. 684 01:23:37,640 --> 01:23:41,600 The Smithsonian has given permission to extract 685 01:23:41,760 --> 01:23:44,400 a DNA sample from Henry 686 01:23:44,560 --> 01:23:48,680 to compare it with Steve's samples. 687 01:23:49,760 --> 01:23:53,000 Where will we take the sample from? 688 01:23:53,160 --> 01:23:57,920 We'll take it out here or where the fangs are located. 689 01:23:58,080 --> 01:24:01,520 {\an8}I will collect the samples, but I will need the help of my team. 690 01:24:01,680 --> 01:24:05,520 {\an8}Melissa Hawkins was in charge of this task. 691 01:24:05,680 --> 01:24:08,200 {\an8}I'll stay out of it, thanks for this. 692 01:24:08,360 --> 01:24:09,680 {\an8}Alright, great. 693 01:24:11,480 --> 01:24:17,400 {\an8}Mary Faith Flores will help you in the following steps. 694 01:24:17,560 --> 01:24:20,440 At the base of one of the molars, 695 01:24:20,600 --> 01:24:25,880 was able to find tissue that even after 70 years 696 01:24:26,040 --> 01:24:29,480 it was cool enough and it was promising. 697 01:24:31,480 --> 01:24:35,000 The following procedures must be done 698 01:24:35,160 --> 01:24:39,600 in a completely sterile environment. 699 01:24:39,760 --> 01:24:43,120 These are the samples of Henry's fabric. 700 01:24:44,240 --> 01:24:49,160 Melissa and Mary will extract the DNA here. 701 01:24:52,480 --> 01:24:58,520 Steve delivers mucus samples and ghost elephant poop 702 01:24:58,680 --> 01:25:03,200 to Katherine Solari, from Stanford University. 703 01:25:03,360 --> 01:25:06,120 In the background is Dmitri Petrov, 704 01:25:06,280 --> 01:25:07,880 the brain behind 705 01:25:08,040 --> 01:25:10,440 of genomic programs from Stanford. 706 01:25:10,600 --> 01:25:16,120 These samples come from the elephant and they are only a few weeks old. 707 01:25:17,560 --> 01:25:22,200 Five of them are of a male ghost elephant. 708 01:25:22,360 --> 01:25:25,080 So I'm going to hand them over to you. 709 01:25:25,240 --> 01:25:29,520 This is one of the ones that come from of the male. 710 01:25:29,680 --> 01:25:35,240 {\an8}Let's smash them open all cells 711 01:25:35,400 --> 01:25:38,600 {\an8}and release all the DNA. So we will see everything inside, 712 01:25:38,760 --> 01:25:40,200 what they eat, 713 01:25:40,360 --> 01:25:44,040 as well as samples of elephant DNA. 714 01:25:53,880 --> 01:25:55,400 This is the sequencer. 715 01:25:55,560 --> 01:25:59,920 It's very modern, worth more than a million dollars. 716 01:26:00,080 --> 01:26:01,960 Will our samples go here? 717 01:26:02,120 --> 01:26:04,720 Exact. They will end up here. 718 01:26:04,880 --> 01:26:08,880 They will go through a series of steps until we get here, 719 01:26:09,040 --> 01:26:12,840 but they end here and the data is generated here. 720 01:26:13,000 --> 01:26:17,920 This machine creates six billion of sequencing reads. 721 01:26:18,080 --> 01:26:22,160 six billion of DNA sequences. 722 01:26:22,320 --> 01:26:23,320 There is a lot of data. 723 01:26:23,480 --> 01:26:25,640 I have set it up here to show you. 724 01:26:25,800 --> 01:26:29,400 Each line is a reading. This one has 150... 725 01:26:29,560 --> 01:26:33,600 - There are many letters. - Letters. And then... 726 01:26:33,760 --> 01:26:36,600 So there are six billion of lines? 727 01:26:36,760 --> 01:26:38,440 - Yes. - Created by machine 728 01:26:38,600 --> 01:26:40,400 from elephant poop. 729 01:26:40,560 --> 01:26:43,120 - Exact. -Is this mitochondrial? 730 01:26:43,280 --> 01:26:44,480 All this is DNA. 731 01:26:44,640 --> 01:26:46,320 Is everything there DNA? 732 01:26:46,480 --> 01:26:48,080 And what will you do with the data? 733 01:26:48,240 --> 01:26:53,040 This is an example of that data a little more processed. 734 01:26:53,200 --> 01:26:56,120 - Here everything is aligned and on a map. - Okay. 735 01:26:56,280 --> 01:27:00,400 {\an8}This is an elephant. This is another one. 736 01:27:00,560 --> 01:27:04,320 {\an8}Find marked anomalies in yellow 737 01:27:04,480 --> 01:27:07,120 {\an8}it would be impossible for humans. 738 01:27:07,280 --> 01:27:09,480 {\an8}From thousands of millions of lines, 739 01:27:09,640 --> 01:27:15,160 {\an8}a computer program identifies the differences between two samples. 740 01:27:15,320 --> 01:27:18,680 {\an8}This elephant in front of this one up here. 741 01:27:18,840 --> 01:27:23,560 We are in Riverside, at the University of California. 742 01:27:23,720 --> 01:27:29,080 Steve's research ends here when comparing DNA 743 01:27:29,240 --> 01:27:34,000 {\an8}of the ghost elephant with that of Henry and other lineages. 744 01:27:34,160 --> 01:27:35,400 {\an8}Hello, Steve. 745 01:27:35,560 --> 01:27:37,600 {\an8}This leads him to Ellie Armstrong. 746 01:27:37,760 --> 01:27:38,920 {\an8}I'm glad to see you. 747 01:27:39,080 --> 01:27:41,320 {\an8}- I brought you something. - Thank you so much. 748 01:27:41,480 --> 01:27:42,720 {\an8}I knew you were coming. 749 01:27:42,880 --> 01:27:45,680 {\an8}You know we were at the Smithsonian. 750 01:27:45,840 --> 01:27:46,840 Of course. 751 01:27:47,000 --> 01:27:50,240 We removed some tissue from under the teeth. 752 01:27:50,400 --> 01:27:56,960 And the goal is to compare it with fresh samples from Angola. 753 01:27:57,120 --> 01:27:59,200 So we can trace the history 754 01:27:59,360 --> 01:28:01,040 {\an8}of these elephants. 755 01:28:01,200 --> 01:28:04,520 {\an8}With this sample we know some things, 756 01:28:04,680 --> 01:28:06,720 {\an8}like where it was picked up. But there are others 757 01:28:06,880 --> 01:28:08,360 that we don't know, 758 01:28:08,520 --> 01:28:12,000 above all, in relation with the elephants of Angola. 759 01:28:12,160 --> 01:28:16,360 We will be able to determine its population, 760 01:28:16,520 --> 01:28:21,240 if it is related to elephants from the forest or other species 761 01:28:21,400 --> 01:28:24,400 or how it differs of today's elephants. 762 01:28:24,560 --> 01:28:25,840 I have seen millions, 763 01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:29,880 but I had never seen one like that. They have long legs. They are very tall. 764 01:28:30,040 --> 01:28:32,600 Its legs are small compared to to your size. 765 01:28:32,760 --> 01:28:33,800 They live at altitude. 766 01:28:33,960 --> 01:28:37,840 A savanna elephant 767 01:28:38,000 --> 01:28:41,280 or the Okavango Delta They wouldn't survive there. 768 01:28:41,440 --> 01:28:48,320 Is it crazy to think which are a subspecies or... 769 01:28:50,120 --> 01:28:52,000 - Yes - completely different? 770 01:28:52,160 --> 01:28:55,520 We can track it using genetic DNA. 771 01:28:55,680 --> 01:28:58,800 So we will see if it comes 772 01:28:58,960 --> 01:29:01,440 of a historical lineage 773 01:29:01,600 --> 01:29:03,120 like the one at the Smithsonian 774 01:29:03,280 --> 01:29:07,320 or if it's something totally new which has never been analyzed. 775 01:29:07,480 --> 01:29:09,600 That's the great thing about sequencing. 776 01:29:09,760 --> 01:29:11,160 Sometimes there are species 777 01:29:11,320 --> 01:29:13,720 that we cannot distinguish just by looking at them. 778 01:29:13,880 --> 01:29:16,960 But when looking at the genome, we see the differences. 779 01:29:17,120 --> 01:29:20,520 This is how three billion are analyzed of DNA base pairs. 780 01:29:20,760 --> 01:29:22,400 with computers 781 01:29:22,560 --> 01:29:24,720 We process all data. 782 01:29:24,880 --> 01:29:28,480 Typically this takes between six months and one year 783 01:29:28,640 --> 01:29:31,800 because you have to collect all genetic data 784 01:29:31,960 --> 01:29:33,600 what about elephants 785 01:29:33,760 --> 01:29:38,560 and contextualize the data that you have brought us. 786 01:29:38,720 --> 01:29:40,320 At first, it takes a long time. 787 01:29:40,480 --> 01:29:44,640 But the next times They are faster. 788 01:29:44,800 --> 01:29:51,760 Later his findings They will be published in scientific journals. 789 01:29:53,360 --> 01:29:56,520 I was perplexed with the number of birds 790 01:29:56,680 --> 01:29:59,240 what was there for the investigation. 791 01:29:59,400 --> 01:30:04,880 They looked like Egyptian mummies in an eternal sleep. 792 01:30:05,040 --> 01:30:11,760 But how will we preserve an increasingly scarce diversity? 793 01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:05,440 Will the ghost elephants hold out? long in the future? 794 01:31:05,600 --> 01:31:09,400 The surveillance of armed rangers 795 01:31:09,560 --> 01:31:15,400 it has only slowed its dramatic decline in number. 796 01:31:15,560 --> 01:31:18,240 After the expedition, 797 01:31:18,400 --> 01:31:24,040 Steve had another fascinating hearing with a local king. 798 01:31:24,200 --> 01:31:29,320 Its deep-rooted traditions They can be the key to protection 799 01:31:29,480 --> 01:31:32,920 and survival of the ghost elephants. 800 01:31:33,080 --> 01:31:36,160 Everything is official. 801 01:31:36,320 --> 01:31:38,760 First you give him permission 802 01:31:38,920 --> 01:31:41,840 to narrate the expedition report. 803 01:31:48,920 --> 01:31:51,240 One of the king's hunters 804 01:31:51,400 --> 01:31:57,280 which was part of the expedition, narrates the events day by day. 805 01:32:19,720 --> 01:32:22,080 And now the king speaks. 806 01:32:22,240 --> 01:32:24,600 Reminds us of elephants 807 01:32:24,760 --> 01:32:28,160 and tells the original myth of his people. 808 01:32:40,280 --> 01:32:45,280 Kerllen explains why elephants They are part of the tribe. 809 01:32:45,440 --> 01:32:48,000 When the hunters went out to hunt, 810 01:32:48,160 --> 01:32:52,280 there was a little elephant at the end of the pack. 811 01:32:52,440 --> 01:32:56,160 This little elephant arrived to the Kwango River. 812 01:32:56,320 --> 01:32:58,680 As you approach the river, 813 01:32:58,840 --> 01:33:03,720 He began to take off his elephant skin. 814 01:33:03,880 --> 01:33:08,720 The hunter could see that it was a woman. 815 01:33:08,880 --> 01:33:13,280 And he helped her get off all elephant skin. 816 01:33:13,440 --> 01:33:14,760 and they both came 817 01:33:14,920 --> 01:33:18,960 running here, to the kingdom of Nkangala. 818 01:33:19,120 --> 01:33:24,600 He married that woman. They had children. 819 01:33:24,760 --> 01:33:29,680 And that's why elephants are part of the town. 820 01:33:29,840 --> 01:33:36,040 Therefore, when we ask permission to the king 821 01:33:36,200 --> 01:33:40,520 Before we left, he knelt down. 822 01:33:40,680 --> 01:33:42,200 performed the ritual 823 01:33:42,360 --> 01:33:45,400 to connect with ancestors and ask their permission. 824 01:33:45,560 --> 01:33:47,680 And they let you see the elephant. 825 01:33:47,840 --> 01:33:49,680 That's why you could see it. 826 01:33:49,840 --> 01:33:56,320 You won't be able to see them if you don't ask the king's permission 827 01:33:56,480 --> 01:33:59,200 and their ancestors. 828 01:33:59,360 --> 01:34:00,920 OK. 829 01:34:15,920 --> 01:34:20,160 Is there hope in humans and elephants can coexist, 830 01:34:20,320 --> 01:34:25,440 according to African myth? 831 01:34:26,440 --> 01:34:33,360 Will the landscape hide these elephants for much longer? 832 01:34:33,520 --> 01:34:35,400 Probably not. 833 01:34:35,560 --> 01:34:41,160 But the power of traditions It won't go away easily. 834 01:34:44,520 --> 01:34:48,160 And what is striking is How much Steve 835 01:34:48,320 --> 01:34:51,920 as the elders of the tribe believe 836 01:34:52,080 --> 01:34:56,520 if the elephants disappear, It will be a sign 837 01:34:56,680 --> 01:35:00,360 of our disappearance. 838 01:35:00,520 --> 01:35:05,640 Life would go on, but without us. 839 01:35:48,040 --> 01:35:51,200 According to DNA, Henry's father It was a ghost elephant. 840 01:35:51,360 --> 01:35:54,160 But they need more samples to confirm it. 841 01:35:54,360 --> 01:35:56,920 Your mother could be unique. 842 01:35:57,560 --> 01:36:00,040 Steve, Xui, Kerllen, the Luchazis and the nkangala 843 01:36:00,200 --> 01:36:02,240 protect of poachers the highlands 844 01:36:02,400 --> 01:36:04,920 where these elephants have lived for millennia. 845 01:38:25,320 --> 01:38:27,320 Subtitles: Ainhoa ​​Perez Olabarria