In this episode, I follow up on my experiences with aggressive elephants during my field work and hypothesize why what happened to me happened…
#28: Why Aggressive Elephants? Also, Field Stories, Dung DNA, and Elephant Conservation
Automation in Science: What Will Happen to Scientists?
A big part of my dissertation research was identifying individual elephants, a painstaking process that took months of my time…
Secretive Forest Elephant Friendships
Despite being the largest land animals, one elephant species still has many mysteries…
Why Elephant Dung is a Valuable Resource for Scientists
Forest elephants defecate roughly 17-20 times a day, making dung an accessible and incredible source of information…
Destroying Ivory to Save Elephants: Does It Work?
When I was eight years old, a powerful image imprinted into my memory forever: piles of large, white tusks burning in plumes of smoke in a country called Kenya…
Studying African Forest Elephants
Elephants are the largest land animals, so it comes as a great surprise that for one species, we really don’t know that much…
