


When Sloan threatens to kill Debbie if Eliza doesn't tell him how she discovered their plan, Eliza admits it was because of her ability to talk to animals. The two reach the Blackburns' RV, but Sloan holds Debbie hostage after she reveals she's Eliza's sister. Meanwhile, Debbie meets a local Mbuti boy named Boko, who is sent by his village elders to assist her. Eliza and Darwin have a falling out, with Eliza angrily telling Darwin to be quiet for once. The Blackburns reveal their true agenda as the poachers and capture them, revealing that the fence is electrified. Later, the trio are invited to spend the night at the Blackburns' RV, but the next day, they find Tally inside the RV. They then run into the Blackburns again, and Eliza concludes that the poachers are targeting the elephant herd traveling through the valley. They also begin searching for Debbie, Eliza, Donnie and Darwin.ĭarwin, Eliza, and Donnie meet a gorilla who mentions seeing people setting up a fence across Tempo Valley. Cordelia and her husband, Colonel Radcliffe, try to find Eliza and take her back to London before Nigel and Marianne find out however, they meet up with Nigel and Marianne to inform them of Eliza's escape. Eliza locks her in a cage, but Debbie escapes and pursues her, Darwin, and Donnie. Eliza returns to the Comvee for supplies, and has a small confrontation with Debbie, who demands to know why Eliza ran away from London and gave up her chance for a normal life.

Meanwhile, Debbie is left alone with her feral adoptive younger brother Donnie at their Comvee, while their parents, Nigel and Marianne, go to film a solar eclipse at Tempo Valley. They jump off the train to save the rhino with the help of veterinarians Bree and Sloan Blackburn. While taking a train from Nairobi, they encounter an injured male rhinoceros, who was shot at the river by the same poachers who kidnapped Tally. He attempts to blend in, but gets himself and Eliza in trouble.Īfter having a dream in which Shaman Mnyambo tells her to save Tally, Eliza convinces her roommate Sarah Wellington to buy plane tickets for her and Darwin to return to Africa. Upon arriving, Eliza discovers that her pet chimpanzee, Darwin, stowed away in her suitcase. This prompts her caring but straight-laced grandmother Cordelia to send Eliza to a boarding school in London for her safety - much to Debbie's dismay, since Debbie wanted a normal life.

Eliza is determined to save the cub, causing her older sister Debbie to tell her family about Eliza's antics. When Eliza accidentally strays too far from the cheetahs' home, poachers kidnap one of the cheetah cubs, Tally. And that was just the beginning of my biggest adventure ever."Įliza Thornberry plays with a family of cheetahs in East Africa's Kenya after their mother, Akela, puts her in charge of the cubs. He granted me the power to talk to animals. I freed a warthog who was really a shaman: Shaman Mnyambo. And along the way, something amazing happened. See, my dad hosts this nature show, and my mom shoots it. "I'm Eliza Thornberry, part of your average family.
