Mongabay Newscast

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News and inspiration from nature's frontline, featuring inspiring guests and deeper analysis of the global environmental issues explored every day by the Mongabay.com team, from climate change to biodiversity, tropical ecology, wildlife, and more. The show airs every other week.

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Tuesday Understanding how elephants experience time might change how we protect them
Tue Mar 3rd Tyson Yunkaporta on how the 'wrong story' harms nature, and how we can change it
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Mongabay Newscast

Mar 10, 2026
48½ minutes
44 MB

Khatijah Rahmat, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Germany, says she's trying to build legitimacy around the concept of animal temporality — the ability to experience time — specifically in elephants. Doing so could have implications for conservation and beyond. "How we envision an animal's relationship to time influences whether we see them as feeling, remembering beings. My aim is to encourage a more dynamic view of their place in the world when we recognize them as equally temporal beings." This week on the Mongabay Newscast, Rahmat explains three key...

Mongabay Newscast

Understanding how elephants experience time might change how we protect them

Mongabay.com

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