In this episode, I follow up on my experiences with aggressive elephants during my field work and hypothesize why what happened to me happened…
#27. Charging Elephants and Fresh Dung: Challenges from the Field
This week’s episode is all about studying elephants non-invasively through their dung and using it as a source of DNA. Did you know that some scientists study elephants completely through their dung? Some never even see the elephants!
Review of the Tiger King Zoo: Joe Exotic Didn’t Love His Animals
Tiger King has taken the world by storm. The Netflix series about exotic animal owner and breeder Joe Exotic and his feud with sanctuary owner Carole Baskin fascinated people across the world. While the Netflix docuseries was definitely captivating, as a wildlife biologist, it was extremely frustrating to watch…
#26. First Field Season with Forest Elephants
In this episode, I talk about what it was like to study forest elephants in my very first field season…
#25. Choosing a Field Site for Forest Elephant Research
In the last episode, I take you through the process of how and why I decided to study African forest elephants, and how I came up with the research questions I would ask for my dissertation research…
#24. How Do You Study Elephants? The Start of My Journey
I chose to study elephants for my dissertation research. But how does one even set something like that up? Where do you begin?
