Menike Author:Nancy Grace The scene is set in Ceylon, pre-independent Sri Lanka, in one of the Island's Walauwas, or ancestral homes. All the information on elephant tradition and behavior is authentic and everything that happens in the story has happened to some elephant in Sri Lanka. Much of the information was obtained from an orphanage for elephants. Baby ele... more »phants in Sri-Lanka, like Menike, are given to falling into holes.« less