Elephants Pt. 2: Interview with Dr. Josh Plotnik

Cool Facts About Animals

Cool Facts About Animals Podcast

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🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

What animal is so big it takes to podcast episodes to cover it? The elephant! In this follow-up to our first elephant podcast, we interview Dr. Josh Plotnik, an elephant expert who studies sociality and empathy. We talk about the smartest thing Dr. Plotnik has ever seen an elephant do, whether elephants can recognize themselves in a mirror, how they show empathy, and more.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, we're about to bring you our interview with Dr. Josh Plotnick.
0:03.3	This is part two of our elephant episodes.
0:05.6	He studies sociality and empathy in elephants.
0:09.2	It's a really interesting interview, and we think you're going to like it a lot.
0:11.9	But before we get to that, we have a big backup of Patreon thank yous,
0:15.4	and we wanted to say thank you to Georgia, and Georgia requested the Jaguar say thank you. So here we go.
0:22.2	Thank you so much, meow. With this money, meow, we can put it to good and useful uses for the
0:28.0	environment like eating Spider-Monkey burritos, tons and tons of every day.
0:35.1	Jaguar, how does that help the environment? Well, it's a dozen, yum, meow.
0:40.8	But we as well tell the people that's going to help the environment,
0:43.7	so they help give us more money to eat more Spider-Monkey burritos.
0:49.3	Oh, boy.
0:50.3	We promise we will not put our money towards eating Spider-Monkey burritos.
0:54.7	Instead, we'll use it.
0:57.9	What else is there to buy, you know, ma'amia?
0:59.3	Well, we're going to use it to keep our podcast going,
1:02.5	and also once the coronavirus is over to going on some trips to interviewing scientists in person
1:07.8	and learning more about animals.
1:09.1	I have a good idea for a trip, Mamia.
1:11.1	Yeah. The kitchen! Oh, my God! reviewing scientists in person and learning more about animals. I have a good idea for a trip, Mumia. Yeah?
1:12.5	The kitchen!
1:15.1	All right, thank you, Georgia.
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