Rethinking conservation through elephants’ sense of time and memory

 

(Posted 07th May 2026)

 

Courtesy of African Elephant News

 

Mongabay (U.S), May 6, 2026
Historically, conservation has mostly focused on numbers like population and habitat size. However, in the mid-2000s, scientists started to investigate animal emotions, even trauma, when considering conservation success. In a recent Mongabay podcast, a geographer at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, shared her research examining how elephants perceive and navigate time, often differently than humans do, and what that means for conserving them.
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