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Joyce Poole, elephant researcher and conservationist, shares her insights and convictions about this large, dignified animal. Closeup photography support her discussion about elephant family units, mating rituals, behaviors, and "vocabulary." Recently lifted bans on elephant ivory means this endangered animal is even more at risk.
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Highlights the importance of elephants in Indian culture. Shows how they are trained, how people care for them in captivity, how they are represented in culture, and how human needs are affecting their native habitats. Follows a female mahoot (elephant handler) travelling with elephants on the annual summer migration, a three-hundred-mile journey east across northeast India.
Working in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique, Dr. Joyce Poole and colleagues make a striking observation: many female elephants lack tusks. Elephant tusks are important for obtaining food and water, and essential to male elephants for competing for mates. There is a strong natural selection for having tusks; however, Dr. Poole has discovered the proportion of tuskless elephants has increased in some populations. She explains possible reasons for the increase in the number of elephants lacking tusks.
In this episode, host Emily Graslie highlights an exhibit of taxidermied elephants. The exhibit was created by renowned taxidermist Carl Akeley. The elephants are in need of some repair, and the museum is preparing for this undertaking. Part of "The Brain Scoop" series.
Elephants can communicate over long distances using low-frequency sounds that travel both in the air and through the ground. Scientists are studying whether elephants can hear and interpret these ground vibrations. Using amplifiers, speakers, geophones, and video cameras, scientists have designed an experiment to test how elephant herds respond to an alarm call when it is played back through the ground.
Students learn about the differences between Asian and African elephants and how elephants make a dramatic impact on their ecosystems. After learning about elephants as "landscape architects," students apply the inquiry process to investigate the different tasks of elephants' trunks. Part of the "You at the Zoo" series.
Scientists are conducting the first census of African savanna elephants in over 40 years. They want to determine how many elephants remain and where they are located. Scientists involved in the “Great Elephant Census” project are conducting aerial surveys across millions of square kilometers to obtain accurate elephant census data.
What do chimpanzees, Kodiak bears, and elephants eat? How do they get their food? Three children explore the similarities and differences between themselves and animals and the foods they eat. Shows closeups of animals eating and drinking, but focuses on chimps, bears, and elephants. Covers other characteristics of these three animals in addition to what they eat.
From dogs to squirrels to elephants, students are familiar with many different mammals. Students will learn the distinguishing features of mammals. Concepts and terminology include backbone, fur, warm-blooded, milk, and live young.
In this episode, wildlife expert Jack Hanna highlights some pretty small animals from around the world. His list includes miniature donkeys, pygmy elephants, little penguins, and hummingbirds. Part of the "Jack Hanna's Wild Countdown" series.
In this episode, host Jeff Corwin explores the largest wetland habitat in Botswana featuring a great herd of elephants, deadly hippos, snakes in trees, and exotic birds. Part of the "Ocean Mysteries" series.
National Geographic photographer John Faye covered sixty thousand miles and took over a hundred thousand aerial photographs of Africa’s landscape. His photographic essay revealed a vanishing wildlife and encroaching human settlements. Segment of video from Wild Chronicles Series.
This episode highlights efforts by various individuals to help save animals. Features include a woman's journey to save orphaned orangutans and a man's mission to relocate rhinos by helicopter. Also in this episode, a group of Asian elephants show off their skills and intelligence. Part of the "All In" series.
Dr. Tom deMaar is a wildlife veterinarian at Ol Jogi wildlife sanctuary in Kenya. He shares his philosophy of conservation and his experiences treating gazelles, leopards, rhinos, and any other animal in need. Features a leopard hunting, elephants, giraffes, and deMaar's educational emphasis to local children.
Features a wide variety of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and labels. Begins with a simple definition, and this helps clarify pronunciation and provides opportunities to transfer words from working to long-term memory. Also concludes with a critical thinking question. For this particular clip, students will focus on living.
A team of veterinarians travel to Cambodia to support wild animal rescue and emergency care efforts for tigers and elephants. Join the team as they study exotic Asian tigers and provide expertise as an orphaned elephant baby receives a prosthetic leg. Part of "The Wildlife Docs" series.
When Genoveva opens her magic book, the screen is filled with feathers, beaks, horns, legs, wings, and snouts. Genoveva's magic book transports her to various habitats where she learns about the animals that live there. In this episode, Genoveva spends time in the African Savannah. While there she visits with the elephants.
A group of leading engineers in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) gathers on the USS Midway to discuss careers in technology fields. Mike Atwood and Darren Moe of General Atomics describe how their company aids the military, and George Guerre of Northrop Grumman discusses how drones survey various weather conditions. Mike Veale of San Diego Zoo Safari Park explains how drones help stop the poaching of rhinos and elephants in Africa. Part of the “STEAM Leadership” series.
The first in a series of five documentaries plots the course of the river, from its source to its delta. In a succession of spectacular images we see the extraordinary geographical route that the Mekong takes, from the Tibetan plateau, down the mountains of the Yunnan Province in China, then through the tropical valleys and virgin forests of Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand before reaching the green plains of Vietnam. In the tropical forest, nature abounds with wild animal species, rare plants and flowers. In Laos', whole villages still pray to the Gods of Trees while in Thailand a hunter shows how the hunting of Asian elephants for preservation, now forbidden, was practiced. Series: The Soul of Southeast Asia
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