{"id":199,"date":"2008-10-05T18:31:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T07:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2008-10-05T18:31:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T07:31:30","slug":"0073-prof-roger-short-asian-elephants-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"073 &#8211; Prof Roger Short &#8211; Asian Elephants Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, which is the first part of a 2 part interview, I talk to Professor Roger Short from the University of Melbourne on Asian Elephants.   We discuss what got Professor Short interested in elephants to start with, his quest on finding out why elephants have a trunk, the evolution of elephants and their unusual lungs, and what the biggest threat to elephants are today.<\/p>\n<p>Some images courtesy of Professor Short:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/IMG_1545.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Rudyard Kipling\"><br \/>\nThe image from Rudyard Kipling that Professor Short mentions in the interview<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/IMG_1538.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><br \/>\nA tiny elephant embryo<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/IMG_1533.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><br \/>\nThe tooth of a mammoth<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/IMG_1535.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><br \/>\nA 100,000 year old tusk of a mammoth, dredged up from the North Sea!  Yes, I was privileged enough to hold it!<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/audio.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/~brainsmatter\/BM073-RogerShortPart1.mp3\">Download MP3 of Ep 73<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please vote for this podcast this month at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/one_vote2.php?pod_id=40939\" title=\"Podcast Alley - Your Podcast Library\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/images\/podcastalley_icon.gif\" alt=\"PodcastAlley.com Feeds\" border=\"0\" height=\"15\" width=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=brainsmatterinbox%40gmail%2ecom&amp;no_shipping=2&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&amp;charset=UTF%2d8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/x-click-but04.gif\" alt=\"Donate via Paypal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can donate by clicking on the button above, and subscribe by <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=257301606\">subscribing in iTunes <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/iTunesWord.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/BrainsMatter?a=an7km\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/digg.jpg\"> digg this<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, which is the first part of a 2 part interview, I talk to Professor Roger Short from the University of Melbourne on Asian Elephants. We discuss what got Professor Short interested in elephants to start with, his quest on finding out why elephants have a trunk, the evolution of elephants and their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,11,16,20,25],"tags":[355,71,360,97,219,373],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}