Teenage elephants need a father figure

BBC Earth Podcast

Jenkins Laura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Tv & Film

4.6 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The transition between childhood and adulthood is no easy feat for humans and animals alike. These awkward years see creatures evolving physically and socially, clumsily learning to fend for themselves with all the pitfalls of being young, foolish and free. This week we hear from producer-director Simon Blakeney as he describes the dynamic teenage duo of Red and Tatu from Dynasties’ Lions episode.

Learning from others is part of getting older and, hopefully, wiser, but when there are no parental figures to help raise these teenage elephants they become unruly. Also featured is the tale of a jellyfish whose development stages occur in reverse and a Blue Planet II Assistant Producer on her life growing up quite literally on the ocean.

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0:00.0	This is a podcast from BBC Studios.
0:03.9	A commercial subsidiary of the BBC.
0:14.9	We spent some time in the Galapagos Islands and it was an absolutely incredible place to sail through.
0:27.6	We had sperm whales coming incredibly close to the boat and having a mother sperm whale come up on one side of the boat and her calf ending up on the other side of the
0:40.3	boat. And my parents were slightly concerned that mother sperm whale was going to think that our
0:49.7	boat was stopping her from getting to her calf.
0:58.4	The boat was sort of going up and down and the sperm whale was sort of going up and down with the boat.
1:01.9	And she came within half a metre of the boat.
1:05.5	And I remember my mum telling me that they definitely,
1:08.9	they put me in the life jacket
1:10.4	and they were
1:11.9	slightly holding their breath.
1:16.7	Welcome to the BBC Earth podcast, the podcast that sets sail on a favourable tide to explore the
1:24.3	wide and wonderful natural world.
1:31.2	In hindsight, sperm whales are incredibly intelligent animals,
1:35.2	so it's very unlikely that that sperm whale probably would have done anything to the boat.
1:36.2	They're incredibly curious.
1:41.2	She was probably just checking the boat out to see what this strange object was.
1:42.5	It was fun.
1:49.9	This week, stories of growing up, being young and foolish and free.
1:52.8	Stories of getting older and hopefully wiser.
1:57.0	Shaping up and shipping out on your own in the big wide world. So I had, I guess you could say, a slightly unconventional childhood. So I was born one year
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