In this chapter we will focus on a real-life case of human–elephant relations, as described by the conservationist Lawrence Anthony, who claimed to have entered into such close contact with the members of a herd he invited to his reserve that he spoke of knowledge exchange between the elephants and himself. When he died, the elephants walked a long distance to his house, apparently to mourn him. The question that their behavior raises is: how to speak of elephants, and how to speak with them in the conditions of fenced-in lands, postcolonial legal and political structures and, on the other hand, decolonizing and conservationist movements? What are the possibilities to enter into spirited communication with animals such as elephants?