Elephants
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That'll keep bull
elephants
out, I promise.
And sure enough, we've had no problems with bull
elephants.
And I have learned, you know what, cars and motorbikes and elephants, that's not freedom.
And that's what many people know East Africa for: the wildlife, the elephants, and so on.
We do the same task with
elephants.
Another problem with
elephants
is that you cannot make an apparatus that is too heavy for a single elephant.
So two
elephants
need to pick it up at exactly the same time, and pull.
The first tape you're going to see is two
elephants
who are released together arrive at the apparatus.
But it shows the intelligence that the
elephants
have.
Very few animals, I think
elephants
and apes, can do that kind of thing.
Now, I do an enormous amount of research on empathy, and I don't have time to go into it, but empathy is nowadays a topic that we study in rodents and dogs and
elephants
and primates, all sorts of animals.
You find elephants, rhinos, monkeys, pigs, etc.
"Because there were
elephants
and lions, and the people were scared and went somewhere else.
Now, no livestock were involved, but suspecting that we had too many
elephants
now, I did the research and I proved we had too many, and I recommended that we would have to reduce their numbers and bring them down to a level that the land could sustain.
They agreed with me, and over the following years, we shot 40,000
elephants
to try to stop the damage.
Loving
elephants
as I do, that was the saddest and greatest blunder of my life, and I will carry that to my grave.
And we did that by increasing the cattle and goats 400 percent, planning the grazing to mimic nature and integrate them with all the elephants, buffalo, giraffe and other animals that we have.
And there are fallen trees in there now, because the better land is now attracting elephants, etc.
You want to work on getting the market for ivory in Asia down so you're not using 25,000
elephants
a year.
And my idea is also being used now all over Kenya for scaring other predators like hyenas, leopards, and it's also being used to scare
elephants
away from people's farms.
If you dry them quick, you can make, like,
elephants
and steers and stuff, and my wife didn't like these, because they mold, so I had to stop that.
They had large tusks, and we seem to have a very deep connection with them, like we do with
elephants.
Maybe it's because
elephants
share many things in common with us.
Or maybe it's actually because we're bound by deep time, because elephants, like us, share their origins in Africa some seven million years ago, and as habitats changed and environments changed, we actually, like the elephants, migrated out into Europe and Asia.
So having this information allows us to answer one of the interesting relationship questions between mammoths and their living relatives, the African and the Asian elephant, all of which shared an ancestor seven million years ago, but the genome of the mammoth shows it to share a most recent common ancestor with Asian
elephants
about six million years ago, so slightly closer to the Asian elephant.
And that this is not an uncommon feature in Proboscideans, because it turns out that large savanna male
elephants
will outcompete the smaller forest
elephants
for their females.
Then we showed it in dolphins, and then later in
elephants.
We did this work in my lab with the dolphins and elephants, and it's been recently shown in the magpie.
Now we started talking with TED about how you bring dolphins and great apes and
elephants
to TED, and we realized that wouldn't work.
When we were rehearsing last night, he had fun watching the
elephants.
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