Hi, welcome to Cool Facts About Animals.

Today, we have a special guest.

We have Finn Sanders, who is an almost fifth grader, who is Grady's friend, and also knows a ton about elephants.

So I think what was it in second grade, Finn, that you told Grady that you knew a lot about elephants and you should be on the podcast?

Yeah, I think it was in second grade.

All right, so it's been a couple years, and now we're finally ready.

So let's get started.

I have to, a couple things I want to say before we get started.

First of all, this is going to be a two-part episode because we reached out to a professor

named Dr. Josh Plotnik who studies elephants and their socialization.

We're going to talk a lot about socialization and how smart they are.

But this is probably already going to be a longer than usual episode because we just found

so much cool stuff about elephants and because we have another expert here with Finn.

So anyway, Finn, why don't you introduce yourself?

My name is Finn Sanders and I've been studying elephants, well, since second grade, because

I had, we had a thing for it, like we made like a slideshow.

I remember that.

I did Zika shark.

Zika shark, that's right.

Yeah, that was cool.

All right.

Well, let's get started. So then maybe you could start by talking about how many different species of elephants there are, because I think this is kind of breaking news.

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