Qalypso

Qalypso’s story is a heart-breaking one, but as true as the others that inspired Elephant Gin – and its production of a new batch with labels showing Qalypso’s name.

Qalypso was born in 1966 in Kenya near Amboseli, and was part of a herd studied by Cynthia Moss. Amboseli experienced a very bad drought in (1970s and) 1990s, which was the culmination of a number of years of poor rainfall. That drought broke eventually, but it took the females some months before they started reproductive cycling again. Qalypso unfortunately lost four of her five calves, mostly because of this terrible draught.