{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Understanding how elephants experience time might change how we protect them","description":"Khatijah Rahmat, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Germany, says she\u2019s trying to build legitimacy around the concept of animal temporality \u2014 the ability to experience time \u2014 specifically in elephants. Doing so could have implications for conservation and beyond. \u201cHow we envision an animal\u2019s 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.\u201d This week on the Mongabay Newscast, Rahmat explains three key areas of evidence for interpreting elephant temporal experience and how this knowledge could be folded into how we think about protecting elephants or animals in general. \u201cI think it increases the depth of empathy we can have for animals,\u201d she says. \u201cIt can really push the concepts of policy \u2026 but it also can really challenge some of our current, basic assumptions about how we think about logic and evidence.\u201d Image credit: An elephant that has just wallowed in mud in the Linyanti River in northern Botswana. Image by Roger Borgelid for Mongabay. Please take a minute to let us know what you think of our podcast, here. \u2014\u2014 Timecodes (00:00) Why study how animals experience time? (06:58) Elephant eco-cultural identity (11:58) Human-impacted time (27:03) Individual elephant history (34:44) Getting hit with a pineapple is no accident (39:30) How this might help conservation ","author_name":"Mongabay Newscast","author_url":"https:\/\/www.mongabay.com\/podcast\/","html":"