G.A. Bradshaw (gabradshaw.com) is author of Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity (Yale 2009) and the scientist who first identified post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in free living African Elephants. She is the founder and director of The Kerulos Center (www.kerulos.org) and lives with her trans-species family in Southern Oregon where they care for The Tortoise and the Hare Sanctuary.