Katy Payne — In the Presence of Elephants and Whales
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Did the Elephants Not Want You to Share This Knowledge?
am eddie: I don't know where dreams come from, but on the night of the day that i realized we had a covered this, this immense amount of communication that no one had known about in elephants, i fell asleep and dreamed. In my dream, i was surrounded by african elephants on a flat piece of savanna, and they were reaching out to me with their trunks, sniffing me the way elephants do. And then the patriarch of the group spoke. She said, we did not reveal this to you so that you would tell other people. So i woke knowing that the elephants had revealed it to me, not that i had discovered something. But did that mean
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