{"id":204,"date":"2008-12-18T00:06:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T13:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2017-07-01T01:32:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T01:32:00","slug":"077-prof-roger-short-saving-asian-elephants-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"077 &#8211; Prof Roger Short &#8211; Saving Asian Elephants 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, which is the first of a 2 part interview, I talk once again with Professor Roger Short, from the University of Melbourne on further topics regarding Asian elephants, and on saving them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; What are elephants used for?<br \/>\n&#8211; How many elephants have been released back into the wild from zoo breeding?<br \/>\n&#8211; What&#8217;s been doing to help prevent ivory trade?<br \/>\n&#8211; What is being done to help elephants breed?<br \/>\n&#8211; Where does the term &#8216;white elephant&#8217; come from?<br \/>\n&#8211; The intelligence of elephants<br \/>\n&#8211; Elephant communication<br \/>\n&#8211; Vocalisations of African elephants vs Asian elephants<br \/>\n&#8211; Asian elephant vocabulary<br \/>\n&#8211; The playback of Helena Harrington&#8217;s elephant sounds to elephants in both Australia and the UK<br \/>\n&#8211; The friendliness of Asian Elephants<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i64.tinypic.com\/2iw6atd.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/~brainsmatter\/BM077-RogerShortSavingAsianElephants.mp3\">Download MP3 of Ep 77<\/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:\/\/i64.tinypic.com\/o88nyu.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, which is the first of a 2 part interview, I talk once again with Professor Roger Short, from the University of Melbourne on further topics regarding Asian elephants, and on saving them. &#8211; What are elephants used for? &#8211; How many elephants have been released back into the wild from zoo breeding? [&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":[355,71,360,98,365,369,219,373],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"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=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}