tonight on "nightline," staying alive. how is this for a weekend escape? survival camp. worried about earthquakes, terror attacks or nuclear meltdowns? they're doing something about it. what to buy, what to wear and why to stock up on a few pet goats. what these survival obsessives know that you don't. plus, big love. they've lost their mothers and at the world's first elephant orphanage, these titanic tots field, teeth and cud with their adopted human families. how to become an elephant foster parent. and, true blood. move over, botox. if you want to stay as eternally

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want, good looks, a good marriage, good kids, a good home and yet you still want to escape for that perfect romantic getaway, what better choice can there be but getting locked in the trunk of a car, only so that you can escape, which is how christine spent a weekend away the other day. she and her husband were actually paying for this lesson. 800 bucks each for a three-day course. because one thing very much on their minds these days is survival. >> ready? >> i'm not worried. i just want to be prepared. >> if an earthquake or anything like that happens, people get scary and you need to know how to from ticket yourself and your children. >> reporter: and yes, you can say this is worrying about things that never happen. but as we've just seen in japan, things that never happen sometimes do. and the fear goes beyond the drama of a tsunami wave or an earthquake in a far away place. closer to home, it's hurricane katrina, terror plots on planes and in times square.

the economy crashing. and the sense that some of the things we take for granted might not be so secure. >> something's on the rumble and if you can't -- i think most people are anxious. i think people can feel it. who knows what it's going to be. i'd like to be prepared if it happens to happen where we live. >> reporter: which is why christine and zoltan are here. >> i worry about my girls and myself and if something were to happen to him, i want to be able to take care of myself. >> reporter: so, there it is. they're young, they're in love, they're survivalists. and while survivalism is a broad category, for them, it was taking a course in a hotel conference room where everyone gets their wrists cuffed together. >> put the tension this way and then rock that way. >> reporter: this is extreme advanced sewer vialism because kidnapping, what are the odds, really? and if it seems extreme --

>> oh, that hurts. >> reporter: it's actually appealing to a surprisingly broad swath of regular folks. the guy teaching the seminary, kevin, you know what he used to be? he marketed software for apple. and he says his clients are increasingly white collar types who are worried about disaster. >> it's really shifted. i'm getting a lot more normal every day american civilians who are saying, you know what? things are not going really good. >> pull on each toe. >> reporter: so, yeah, fear drives his business. >> we have a saying in the industry that we're about nine meals away from anarchy. >> reporter: what does that mean? >> we would expect after three days to see some fairly chaotic behavior. >> reporter: because everybody would be out of food. >> that's what most people have on hand. >> reporter: if the supermarkets aren't stocked -- >> they will be cleared out in the first two hours of an

emergency. so, there's no food coming in, there's no food in the scotores. people panic. >> reporter: and panic is pretty good for business at a place lie major supply and survival in california. riot gear. where the racks of dehydrated food and various tools are standing by for the uptick in sales that tends to follow news of natural disasters. does this stuff sell well all the time or just -- >> all -- obviously more when we have a little shake or something in california and people -- >> reporter: is that what gets it going? so, tremors are good for business then? >> yeah. >> reporter: as for who buys this kind of stuff, well, meet neal and his goats. more about them in a moment. we're behind his house in the hollywood hills. this is earthquake country. past the pool is a bunker of sorts. neal, a former music reporter, wrote "emergency," a story of his own conversion to

survivalism. what do you have here? >> here is what i'm offering you. we have all kinds of fruits. beans, rice. >> reporter: he's turned his garage into a high tech pearlized version of the store. this is not your ordinary road bike. >> this is an aultimate all-terrain vehicle. this stuff is called thermo-gel. obviously in l.a., a wildfire. these are something which a lot of people don't know about, you can spray on your house and the fire leaps over it. >> reporter: and the goats? and the chickens? they are his living food supply. milk and eggs and, he says, he'll eat these animals if he has to. seriously? the goelts are providing milk? >> milk and more goelts. >> reporter: neal maintains a sense of humor about survivalism.

not everyone can do that. have you seen people take this so seriously where they are now at the point where they want doomsday to happen -- >> totally, totally. of course. there are a lot of people that prepar prepare. >> reporter: still, as we've just been reminded, there's really no way that anybody could really want this kind of doomsday to come, even if they are ready. i'm john donvan for "nightline" in los angeles. >> thanks, john. and amen to that. up next, find out how many gallons of milk a day it takes to be the foster parent to a baby elephant. when "nightline" continues. ♪ there's another way to minimize

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>> announcer: "nightline" continues from new york city with cynthia mcfadden. >> there were more than 3 million elephants in africa a century ago. today, there are fewer than 300,000. the biggest threat to these intel jenligent ma'ammals -- ma. today, a wildlife trust in nairobi is home to baby elephants who have lost their mothers. it provides a sanctuary and a human family, for some mighty big babies, as jeffrey kofman reports for our series, "into the wild." >> reporter: another day begins at the orphanage. time for the guardian and his ward to get up. meet the youngest of the orphans, a 4-month-old who came here a few weeks ago. her mother is gone. her love and loyalty now with

the keepers who watch her day and night. patrick cares, nurtures and returns the love. is she friend? >> yes, very. >> reporter: she is. this is teething, is it? oh, i feel the teeth. i never had my hand eat p by an elephant before. >> reporter: this baby is too young to chew and too young to survive on her own. that's my watch. she was rescued in northern kenya. she had fallen into a watering hole. her mother couldn't get her out and abarnly abandoned her, perhaps chased away by predators. right now, there are 17 orphaned babies here at the david shellbrick wildlife trust. the world's first elephant orphanage. >> so, here -- >> reporter: one of the most popular tourist stops? the mid-day feeding. it doesn't matter how old you are. watching the babies frolic,

rolling in the dirt, spraying themselves with water, is few delight. but these viewings also help cover the $1,000 per month it costs to maintain each of the elephants. and so does a foster parent plan on the internet. and that is daphne shellbrick. born in kenya, widow of one of the founders of kenya's national parks. in 50 years of caring for wild animals in africa, she pioneered the techniques for keeping baby elephants alive. she and the staff of the trust have saved more than 130 young elephants. in 2006, she became dame daphne, after being knighted by the queen. when you look around at the elephants here, if this orphanage different exist, what would have happened to these elephants? >> they would have died. an elephant can't live without milk under the age of 3.

>> reporter: like any orphanage, there are bottles for the babies. but elephants are particularly demanding as infants. they must be fed every three hours, day and night, for the first three years of their lives. each elephant will drink 25 quarts of milk a day. it's the morning feed. never was an elephant so eager. when did you figure out it was possible to raise infant elephants? >> well, it was trial and error. they can't die gust the fat of cow's milk. i scoured for a baby milk that didn't have cow's milk fat. >> reporter: daphne insists getting the diet right is only part of the equation. >> you have to replace the elephant family with a human family. because elephants are very human emotionally. and they are very pounded to the family. so, they all come in in a complete state, having lost

their elephant mother, their elephant family. they're very fragile. they just want to die. they don't even want to live. you've got to turn that around, litt litterally, in a few days. >> reporter: the keepers are key. >> this is the elephant family, all these guys in green. they ought to have trunks. >> reporter: the orphanage is seeing a huge increase in the number of abandoned baby elephants. in part because of recent drought. in part because communication in remote areas is much improved. but the biggest threat is poaching. this rescue team from the shelter flew to the massai mara spotted a baby elephant hovering near its dying mother. the mother had been shot by poachers, intent on taking her tusks and selling them on the black market to kus americans in asia, eager to turn them into household decorations. the baby would not leave its mother's side, but the mother,

riddled with gunshot, had to be euthanized. the frightened baby was captured, comforted, fed and flown to nairobi. you clearly love the elephants. >> oh, yes. you have to. if you don't care for them, they will know that and you won't get the right response. >> reporter: and you care for them? >> oh, yes, i do. >> reporter: and there's an entire herd of elephants that is living proof of that. i'm jeffrey kofman for "nightline" in nairobi. >> charming. born to be wild, a documentary featuring the david shellbrick wildlife trust, debuts in imax theaters this friday. up next, the vampire facelift. no fangs, but plenty of blood, facelift. no fangs, but plenty of blood, when "nightline" continues. cccccccccccccccccc cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc [ male announcer ] it's 2011. wonder where the durango's been for the last two years? well, it toured around europe, getting handling and steering lessons on those sporty european roads. it went back to school,

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well, here's a stunning number. according to some forecasts, the global market for cosmetic surgery services will reach the $40 billion mark by the year 2013. up $10 billion from 2008. one of the latest procedures? the so-called vampire facelift, which involves injecting a patient's own blood into his or her wrinkles and cheeks to smooth the effects of aging. for jeremy hubbard, that's a "sign of the times." >> reporter: for plastic surgery fanatics who have been nipped, tucked, contorted, here's a new one. the vampire facelift. >> you're everything to me. you're everything. >> reporter: don't get too excited. this one won't leaving looking

like bella. but if your smooth face has reached its twilight, some doctors have come up with a bloody brilliant idea. has this procedure eclipsed all your other ones yet? >> it's becoming very popular. now we're seeing patients every week who are asking for this. >> reporter: this plastic surgeon is going to suck your blood, with a needle. and then he'll stick that blood in a centrifuge. >> we take the part that's separated, the plasma, and we put it into another test tube that has some special processing ingredient it in and that helps us coconcentrate the plasma-rich proteins with the growth factors. record and once injected, he says it will stimulate collagen growth in your face. the newest wrinkle plum per, your own blood. we followed two patients who were sucked in. first, lynn. i'm trying to see if there's need for improvement there. i don't see a lot. but this is something you feel will make your face look better?

>> well, i think the trick is, if you stay on top of it and tune up, then don't have to go in for an overhaul. >> reporter: so this is a tuneup? >> yes. something that comes out of my body goes back into my body. >> reporter: and also shelly. >> the thing i'm most concerned about are just the droopiness and the lines from my -- i think that makes me look old. >> reporter: both ladies like the idea of a cosmetic procedure gone organic. one that uses their own, well, true blood. >> my god. i think he just got his first vampire. >> reporter: and if their face injections are recycled material, so, too, is this whole vampire analogy. lately, they're everywhere, cashing in. how about this energy drink that comes in a blood bag? maybe some vampire perfume. who wouldn't want to smell like dracula? guess a vampire facelift was only a matter of time. so, how long does a vampire facelift last?

up to 18 months, they say, and it costs $800 to $1200 a treatment. twice as long and half the price as other popular fillers. >> this is safe because it is from our own body. you don't have to worry about reaction to foreign terrible. >> reporter: how does it work? let's check back in. first, lynn. the before and the after. now, shelly. preblood injection, after after. subtle differences, but the ladies are pleased. blood, it seems, really does keep you youthful. after all, edward is 110 years old, yet not a wrinkle in sight. now, if they could just do something about that pasty white skin. he really should get some sun. i'm jeremy hubbard for "nightline." >> the eternal search for eternal youth. thanks for watching abc news. we hope you