I chose to study elephants for my dissertation research. But how does one even set something like that up? Where do you begin?
I recently gave a talk to undergraduate students in wildlife studies. I talked about my past research including my dissertation research on forest elephants, but also more recent research on camera traps. At the end of the talk though, I got a lot of questions about how I set up more elephant research.Â
I thought now would be a great time to talk about that. In this episode, I talk about how I got started and why I chose forest elephants.Â
Specifically, we’ll go over:
- Why did I choose to research elephants? And forest elephants specifically?
- What makes elephants so interesting? Why did I find them fascinating?
- African savanna elephant social structure and behavior
- The different existing elephant species
- How I decided my research topic when I could study almost anything I wanted
- African forest elephant social structure
- My three research questions
- Forest elephant networks from observations
- Forest elephant networks from DNA
- Home ranges and spatial overlap
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