"If you put yourself in their position, if your kid was hit by a car and you felt that people were negligent or whatever you thought, I suppose you or your family might fly into a rage or scream or shout at people also," Joyce Poole, who co-founded an elephant research and advocacy nonprofit called
Observations of elephants in their natural habitat by researchers such as Dr. Joyce Poole suggest that elephants are indeed thoughtful, curious and ponderous creatures. Their large brains, with such a diverse collection of interconnected, complex neurons, appear to provide the neural foundation of t
Date: Aug 12, 2018
Category: Headlines
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An elephant was stranded nine miles out to sea. Then the Sri Lankan Navy arrived.
Joyce Poole, co-founder of the Elephant Voices conservation group, told The Washington Post in an email that elephants are considered the best swimmers of any land mammal, excluding trained human swimmers.
Date: Jul 13, 2017
Category: World
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Many Female African Elephants Now Born Tuskless Due to Decades of Ivory Poaching
According to Joyce Poole, the head of charity Elephant Voices, told The Times that she has observed a direct correlation between the intensity of poaching and the percentage of females born without tusks in some of the herds she monitored.
This study is one more confirmation of just how intelligent and flexible elephants are, says Joyce Poole, an elephant expert with ElephantVoices in the Maasai Mara in Kenya. I routinely tell the Maasai I work with that the elephants are studying us more carefully than we are studying them. The w
Date: Mar 10, 2014
Category: Sci/Tech
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Elephants Know How Dangerous We Are From How We Speak
The results add to "our growing knowledge of the discriminatory abilities of the elephant mind, and how elephants make decisions and see their world," says Joyce Poole, an elephant expert with ElephantVoices in Nairobi, Kenya.
Date: Mar 10, 2014
Category: Sci/Tech
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Elephant "Speaks" Like a Human—Uses Trunk to Shape Sound
Six years ago, this video clip hit the inbox of elephant-communication researcher Joyce Poole of ElephantVoices, sent by the flummoxed staff of the Everland Zoo. It was the first look scientists would have of Koshik, the Korean-speaking elephant.
"It would be the way we remember some gut feelings," Joyce Poole, an elephant behaviorist and co-founder of ElephantVoices, said in a phone interview from Norway. "They are used to going in and out of cages and being in small confined spaces. Otherwise, getting back into a truck could bring back som