Cultural and classical elephants. The meaning of elephants / Donald J. Consentino, Joyce Poole, Colin M. Turnbull, and Jan Knappert ; The origin of elephants / Franklin Edgerton ; War elephants / Arrian ; Aristotle's elephant / Aristotle ; Pliny's elephants / Pliny the Elder ; Beasts of the book / T.H. White
Colonial and industrial elephants. Killers and heroes / Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming ; Industrial killers / W.D.M. Bell
Working and performing elephants. To break and tame / U Toke Gale ; A mother's love / J.H. Williams ; Jumbomania: a circus story / P.T. Barnum ; Death and the circus / Charles Edwin Price ; Cutting the chain / Carole Bradley ; Abusing captive elephants in India / Shubhobroto Ghosh
Social and sexual elephants. Individuals / Iain and Oria Douglas-Hamilton ; Families / Iain and Oria Douglas-Hamilton ; Green penis disease / Joyce Poole ; Sex / Cynthia Moss
Emotional and cognitive elephants. Joy / Cynthia Moss ; Triumph and grief / Joyce Poole ; Big love / Carl Safina ; A concept of death / Cynthia Moss and Joyce Poole ; The secret language of elephants / Katy Payne ; Elephant in the mirror / Joshua M. Plotnik, Frans B.M. de Waal, and Diana Reiss ; An interest in skulls and history / Karen McComb, Lucy Baker, and Cynthia Moss
Empathetic and endangered elephants. The good Samaritans / Katy Payne ; Rescuing the antelopes / Lawrence Anthony ; Scents and sensibilities / Lyall Watson ; Blood ivory / Bryan Christy ; In praise of pachyderms / The Economist
Fictional and literary elephants. Faithful elephants / Yukio Tsuchiya ; A mahout and his war elephant / Vu Hung ; Dear elephant, sir / Romain Gray.