Having already spent a night at the Ark, a quirky Noah's Ark-like lodge tucked into the thick, verdant forests of Kenya's Aberdare National Park, I was familiar with the drill: one bell meant elephants arriving to the salt lick and watering hole that the back of the lodge overlooks.
This one is not going to let us go home to lick our wounds, and that should be taken into account when Americans think about how long we should stay committed to this effort.