Katy Payne — In the Presence of Elephants and Whales
On Being with Krista Tippett
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How Did You Work With Elephants?
You've worked with whales, and then you began to work with elephants. And although those are two very different kinds of creatures, they are two of the world's largest and somehow most mysterious tic and also somehow intelligent creatures. But tell me how you started working with elephants out of all those years that you'd worked with whales. Well, the changing whale song was an example of cultural evolution,. That is to say, a gradual, progressive change because the animals were learning from each other.
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