Wa'Koo-Ba was born to Seri and Batikki who ruled their small clan of elephants for many years. Life was good for all the clans in Africa; until hunters started shooting the big game animals for trophies, in 1932. That's when life made a wicked turn for all the animals on the continent. Suddenly the challenges of just staying alive became more and more difficult. Prior to the hunters coming; elephants really had no enemies to speak of. Lions were labelled "The Kings of the Jungle" because of their sheer ferocity, but Lions rarely bothered a full grown elephant, or elephants that stood their ground in groups. But when hunters arrived in Africa looking to add to their collection of wild beasts, everything changed for the worst. Then in later years an elephant's ivory tusks became valuable to man, and soon random poachers began killing these magnificent beasts just to get the ivory. Hundreds of mature elephants, and even adolescent babies with tusks were separated from their mothers and slaughtered along with the magnificent males. This is the story of one little fellow, who grew up to become a legend... Wa'Koo-Ba.
