How elephants experience time, and what this tells us about protecting them

Mongabay
Mar 10, 2026, 5:31 pm115 ptsTrending
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…

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