You were talking and your research papers talk about finding the lifetime value or finding the net present value of a living elephant or a living whale as we were talking about.How does somebody go about doing this?
bottom it was a little thing but it was actually quite a a big thing and his name was Kungchai. He was a little Thai elephant who unfortunately had been separated from his mother and in that process of being separated from hismother for cultural reasons he was technically coughnapped or kidnapped.
Obviously, one of the biggest problems in Africa today is elephant ivory. Elephant ivory is still a widely traded product.An elephant is killed on the continent of Africa roughly every 15 minutes, and those are always killed for ivory.
"'A pea veloute the color of Kermit pools around candy colors, tiny pink radishes, bright carrots, asparagus tips, elephant mushrooms, spiced with wisps of curry yogurt, fat langoustines with blunt, pink tails wrapped in shreddedphyllo dough.'" Wow, she really did like it.
um a horse will be able to get under it a horse okay how about an elephant I should be getting suici successfully less people putting their hands up but getting more people or howabout okay I'm not going to tell you quite yet how about giraffe that's the tallest
This is very exciting and particularly in relation to the current poaching surge that is going on. So I wanted to give you a little example of an elephant in peril. This is an elephant called Mountain Bull and he lives under this beautiful mount in Mount Kenya which is 17 thousand feet high, right on the equator in the middle of Kenya. He has lotsof difficult choices he has to make that involve taking risks driven by the imperative to pass on his genes, he has to go and find females. And sometimes because he needs to eat good
map of Africa is on a new website that we're putting together actually funded by the Tides Foundation through Google Outreach. And the circles there represent the size of various elephant populations. So you can see the biggest by far is found in Botswana and Zimbabwe down here and then again in Tanzania and all the other populations are relatively small inAfrica. If you look at this program called MIKE, Monitoring Illegal Killing of Elephants ,
Iain: We don't really need ivory, it's a lovely substance and people make pretty ornaments out of it but it's not something we need at all and certainly not if it's killing the elephant . If people were only taking the ivory from elephants that die naturally, it wouldn't matter, but they don't. See, every time you get a little bit of trade then the poacherscome and they kill the elephant to make money, they do it just for money.
And then finally the Patagonia Coast where Claudio and a number of people who work for him and partner with him are protecting the largest continental population of Southern elephant seals, penguins, albatross, in a way, in protecting and restoring that abundance in a way that is unprecedented around the planet.So there is incredible hope and incredible demonstrated success of places where weíre improving the health of the oceans and saving a number of species and ecosystems.
I was walking in the park. I saw giant animals coming. Look, first time in my life seeing elephant . Big almost one floor, maybe one and half floor, very big. Back of head there'sone tiny guy controlling elephant . Elephant , you know, taking how to say- bananas, apples,
right side paralyzed blind mute or verbally challenged this side of his head to expand like the Elephant Man about eight days after coming out of of of the coma his parents told him theseparation was going to be final my friend um went through therapy Etc
stun you. I think people don't realize how big a lot of animals are, which sounds weird, but I used to work in a few zoos, and something I think you notice is when you go and see things like elephants or giraffes or rhinos, everything's built to the scale of the animal. The elephant house is huge. The doors are huge. Thebars are huge. The food is huge. And so you don't see them in the context of something that you have a good
y- y- mice live about 2 and 1/2 years. Elephants live, you know, as long as we do or whatever. But, that's all determined by this organelle. So, you can see I have wrinkles and this kind ofthing. This is from living on the planet. And this is from wear and tear on this organelle, which allows us to
ecosystem, the world will change. Elephants take the old trees and they knock them down.It allows birds and other animals to live there and for the soil to be rich.
situation where without this education, without understanding the value of elephants for their farming, then these people naturally don't understand whywhy protect them. And so that was such a cool aha moment for these people and for
All across the continent, they're in big trouble. Elephants . Again, this is a herd of elephants in Amboseli National Park in Kenya.Elephants are a huge driver in the economy in Africa.
Elephants . Again, this is a herd of elephants in Amboseli National Park in Kenya.Elephants are a huge driver in the economy in Africa.It's estimated that one elephant can bring in over one million dollars of tourism revenue in its life, versus a few thousand dollars
We are not the animals on earth with the largest brains. Elephants , dolphins, and whales have large absolute brain sizes than we do.We're not the animals on earth with the largest brains in proportion to our bodies.
It turns out we had crossed in the wrong place. Elephants , fortunately, are very good swimmers.Very buoyant. So she swam back to shore.
And we had the heads of state of the 13 tiger range states. Elephants will smash them.
The grizzly bears that lived in the San Bernardino Mountains used to come down off of those mountains into the California desert. Elephants live in the desert.So while I think we have a notion about the value of deserts, the reality is that life on this planet
Bob Paine also coined another term to describe this sort of relationship, this sort of cascading effect of one species on others, Elephants in the thousands-- again, small numbers, hippos decimated, waterbuck decimated, zebra almost cleared out.
Elephants are maybe the most famous animals with regard to their responsive grief.
Elephants eat the dung of their moms just after they're born in order to establish the microbial community that they need to break down
Elephants are the centers of the animal kingdom.
Elephants , I think, are the easiest.
station, it's the most fabulous place you can imagine. It's a place where, until recently, elephants could live out their lives without being dominated by one emotion, which is fear of man. And so they behave naturally and it's there that our prime technology was a veryprimitive one which was to learn to recognize elephants as individuals, to record all the births and deaths and departures. We got to know, again, about 500 elephants and we have
Iain: So the corridor is created up the side of the mountain and it had to pass under a main road which is the road here, and we were wondering how long it would take the elephants to learn how to use this corridor and to stop using that destructive route.Well, the curious thing is, the first day that that corridor was opened, these young elephants came through, they came under that tunnel and actually the very first elephant
get extremely worried and you send out a patrol. So these are the various ways we can help them. And I just wanna show you the areas where we work in Africa. We're working on elephants in the desert out in Mali to the far west near Timbuktu, we're looking at elephants in the bushveld in South Africa and we're looking at elephants In Kenya. And we've been looking at elephants in the Central African Forest but they've now, that was doing it
I would love to have heartbeat, respiration, all sorts of parameters and other people do it with other animals and it's probably just a matter of time before we can do it with elephants . We're working with Disney, actually, on this and we started looking at elephants reactions to bees because I had a very bright member of our staff, Lucy King, who was workingout that maybe you could protect crops by using bees, to make a beehive barrier cause the elephants are afraid of the bees. So she tested what they're afraid of and played bee
Elephants , snakes, tigers, and cave bats all live here, secluded from the rest of India.
elephants and rhinos and lions accumulating specimens for the smithonian completely out of touch with
elephants teeth sinking into heart is Rachael Yamagata here with us and before
The elephant just has many more of them.
frame of reference for. And I learned this, yeah, when I was at London Zoo and was going into the basement of the old elephant and rhino pavilion, and a rhino stuck its head out from like this gap in the wall, and the head was twice the size I thought it was once you stood next to it. And the same with an elephant . I once stood next to an elephant closer than you are to me now, and you go, "Oh, they
The elephant in in room here is the perception, right, of the Dems as a party that has become too
The elephant behaviors are quite different.
What we do is we work to reduce the illegal demand for trafficked wildlife parts. So elephant ivory, rhino horn, shark fin soup, pangolins, you name it, sea turtles, tigers, all kinds of animals that are bought and sold for mostly bones or skin or things like that.
Elephant ivory is still a widely traded product.An elephant is killed on the continent of Africa roughly every 15 minutes, and those are always killed for ivory. And the sad thing is, it doesn't matter how big or old or young the elephant is, if there's any ivory at all, it will be taken.
The elephant loved it and the other elephants were coming.
the elephant that, that wasn't there before, in order for it to belong to
and elephant tusks has decided to start regulating the trade of nautilus shells as well, which is very encouraging.
An elephant only has to sleep three or four years only a couple of hours.
The elephant is a symbol of strength, of heroism, of intelligence-- because elephants are very intelligent animals-- of emotion, because elephants are easily aroused to emotion,
And we had the heads of state of the 13 tiger range states. This elephant may be thinking, oh my god, that's the world's largest tsetse fly, or whatever he's thinking.
Asian elephant and mammoths genomes are already, without thinking about anything, about 99% the same, the same as we are with chimpanzees.
the elephant , whatever it is.
An elephant can smell the rotting fruit of a marula tree from 10 kilometers away.
An elephant 's tusk-- I think it was a shovel or something which had clearly been cut with a band saw and sanded down with sandpaper.
dealing with now is not, at the moment, the alienation of land by human beings expanding into elephant range, that is a problem but our major short term problem is the problem of elephant poaching for ivory. I'm sorry to show you this picture, it's horrible, but this is the result of a wounded elephant that has come back into the reserve having gone outside, been shot at for its ivory, she's a matriarch convulsing in agony and we're