If you are in San Diego or La Jolla Saturday May 19th, swing by the National Geographic Gallery and join us for the 2nd ever Elephant Evening. In honor of #EndangeredSpeciesDay we will screen the documentary from 5:30-6:30pm and follow up with a Q&A until 7:30pm. Kid friendly and alcohol-free!
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Officers from the DWC (middle and back rows) along with workshop facilitators (front row).
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I am trying out something new this month: I am hosting a fundraising event!
The event will take place on December 21st in San Francisco in the Randall Museum. We’ll show a BBC movie about elephants in Sri Lanka (trailer) and my friend Shermin de Silva will give a talk about her work with these same elephants.
Shermin is an inspiring woman. She runs a field station in Sri Lanka, works in the United States (she is a postdoc in Fort Collins) and manages to raise enough money to keep her research going. This, as you can imagine, is not easy!
Her research is interesting, because she is one of few people who follows individual elephants in a wild Asian elephant population over time. Because she and her field crew know the individual elephants, they can see when elephant friendships form and break. It…
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Join us for a live event December 21st 2013, at the Randall Museum in San Francisco:
“Elephant Social Dynamics and Conservation”
National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore
Friday Nov. 16th, 4pm
“The Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Social Affiliations Among Asian Elephants”
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Jakkur
Evolutionary and Organismal Biology Unit
Saturday Nov. 17th, 11:30am
***Please note change of title***
Who: Shermin de Silva
What: ELEPHANT BEHAVIOR AND CONSERVATION: Lessons From Uda Walawe
When: July 12 2011, 6:00 pm
Where: Institute of Engineers, Colombo 07
Watch Shermin’s talk “The Secret Society of Asian Elephants” here:
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