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Josh Plotnik: Hi, my name is Josh Plotnik, and I'm with Think Elephants International, and we're here in the Golden Triangle of Thailand with the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation elephants.
And we have 26 elephants here, and our research is focused on the evolution of intelligence with elephants, but our foundation Think Elephants is focused on bringing elephants into classrooms around the world virtually like this and showing people how incredible these animals are.
When Trafalgar Square in London was excavated, the river gravels there were found to be stuffed with the bones of hippopotamus, rhinos, elephants, hyenas, lions.
And so, on New Year's Eve of 2007, I went to the zoo, and I stood in front of the elephants, and I said, "This city is going on a diet, and we're going to lose a million pounds."
We've also taken pictures of other animals including forest buffalos in Gabon, elephants, and even turtle nests.
Or, how to deal with a large species like elephants, which may, if their populations get too large, have a negative impact on the ecosystem and on other species.
In the foreground is an area with lots of fire and lots of elephants: wide open savanna in blue, and just a few trees.
As we cross this fence line, now we're getting into an area that has had protection from fire and zero elephants: dense vegetation, a radically different ecosystem.
But what's good is that the technology we've developed and we're working with in South Africa, for example, is allowing us to map every single tree in the savanna, and then through repeat flights we're able to see which trees are being pushed over by elephants, in the red as you see on the screen, and how much that's happening in different types of landscapes in the savanna.
And I watched as the matriarch drank, and then she turned in that beautiful slow motion of elephants, looks like the arm in motion, and she began to make her way up the steep bank.
And then there's the elephants.
Those extraordinary elephants with their little, sort of strange, sinister expressions and Greta Garbo eyelashes, with these golden tusks and so on.
If you think about divans and perhaps even opium-induced visions of pink elephants, then at that point, this object starts to make sense.
We knew that primates and elephants and dolphins could do that, but compared to bats, they have huge brains.
Home to the largest remaining population of elephants on the planet.
Downstream, this represents water security for millions of people and more than half of the elephants remaining on this planet.
Female elephants and female hyenas have a penile clitoris, or an enlarged clitoral tissue that hangs externally, much like a penis, and in fact it's very difficult to sex these animals by merely looking at their external morphology.
A 2011 study showed that elephants can cooperate to solve problems.
In many ways, I feel like I became a service animal to my own dog, and I have seen parrots do it for people and people do it for parrots and dogs do it for elephants and elephants do it for other elephants.
But the last few decades have shown us that other animals can do it too: elephants, porcupines, sheep, goats, you name it.
In this way, elephants have told us how to treat stomach upset, and porcupines have told people how to treat bloody diarrhea.
Or if geologists were elephants?
Which is at least a tiny bit awesome, because you can get an infinite number of elephants in a line, and still have it fit across a single notebook page.
They communicate, of course, but you will never catch a chimpanzee traveling to some distant chimpanzee band to give them a talk about bananas or about elephants, or anything else that might interest chimpanzees.
Their reality consists of objective entities, like rivers and trees and lions and elephants.
In our world, too, there are rivers and trees and lions and elephants.
Tropical forests and other ecosystems are being destroyed, climate change, so many species on the brink of extinction: tigers, lions, elephants, rhinos, tapirs.
So these elephants, you can see, obviously, they are resting.
No one would mistake these elephants as being relaxed.
It turns out that if you record the voices of tourists and you play that recording from a speaker hidden in bushes, elephants will ignore it, because tourists never bother elephants.
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