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How to break an elephant? | Nishant Srinivasaiah | TEDxBangalore

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Humans have a dominant influence on the lives of the non-humans in this day and age with the largest land mammal, the Asian elephant being no exception. How have we influenced the lives of these gentle giants?  How are the elephants managing to adapt to an increasingly human-dominated landscape? Is the elephant, often portrayed as a rouge in conflict with people, actually a victim of our hegemony? In this TEDx talk, Nishant Srinivasaiah, an elephant biologist uses the example of Hiristor, one of the many individual elephants that he has come to know as a sentient being and speaks about the ways in which Asian elephants are adapting to the anthropocene often at immense personal and social costs and what we as humans can learn from the lives of the elephants in order to facilitate this process. With an early interest to understand how large mammals such as the elephants manage to adapt and survive in a rapidly transforming human-dominated landscape like ours, Nishant has been observing elephant populations and individuals, both in the wild and in captivity, for about 10 years now. He is currently pursuing his doctoral studies on the behavioural decision-making in Asian elephants in a changing ecological and anthropogenic environment around Bengaluru, from the Animal Behaviour and Cognition Programme at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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