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The family structure of elephants - Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell

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Biologist Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell has come to one big conclusion from her last twenty years studying elephants -- they're just like us. In this TEDYouth Talk, O'Connell-Rodwell details her work observing these incredible, social animals, examining several individual (and very familiar) characters that play, bond and argue in tight-knit extended families eerily similar to our own.

At what age does a male elephant leave his family and join loosely associated or bonded groups of adult males?

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