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Katy Payne — In the Presence of Elephants and Whales

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Compassion Is Good for All Right?

CNN's John Defterios traveled with elephant researchers in the wild. They documented behaviors that don't quite make sense if you just think about it in evolt ay terms. Compassion is often a word to use to describe an ever present a quality, at least especially among the females and their families. And we saw a lot of competition and non compassion too. The other three quarters registered some kind of awareness that something was wrong.

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