Hello, this is Ellen Weatherford. And this is Ellen Weatherford.

And this is Christian Weatherford.

And we're here with Justin Zoo of us.

This is the Animal Review podcast, where we review and rate your favorite species of

animals out of 10 on the three categories of effectiveness, ingenuity, and aesthetics.

Christian and I are not zoological experts, but we do a lot of research

to prepare for our show, and we try our best to make sure we're giving you good information

from good sources. So definitely don't put yourself in danger on our parts. We cannot be held

accountable for any animal-related deaths that may occur as a result of you taking us

too seriously. But if we do get something wrong and you know that because you are a zoological

expert, please feel free to reach out to us. We can be connected with on Twitter or Facebook or

Gmail. I will provide all that information at the end as we're wrapping up.

So what do you have for us this week?

So I am going first this week because last week, Christian went first.

So this animal was sent into us by Jennifer Whitehurst.

Jennifer Whitehurst requested that I talked to you today about our dear friends,

the Asian elephant.

Oh, this is a big one.

This is a very big animal, although not as big as the African elephant.

I'll talk to you a little bit about how you can tell the difference between the two in just a second.

Before I do, I want to say that I got my information from the Smithsonian Zoo, National Geographic, and a scientific American article about the science in elephant cognition. So to introduce

you to our new friends, the Asian elephants, their adult size is an average of 6 to 12 feet at the

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