{"id":1667,"date":"2016-06-19T18:44:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T18:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2016-07-06T18:51:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T18:51:11","slug":"getting-to-know-the-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/2016\/06\/19\/getting-to-know-the-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting to know the elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the week progressed, we began to learn more about each elephant&#8217;s personal story. Some had been at Elephants World a long time, but others were very new and still showed signs of overwork or abuse. We learned which elephants were friends, and which ones were feuding. We waited anxiously\u00a0for one pregnant elephant to give birth\u2014she didn&#8217;t, but it was exciting nonetheless! We learned about the adoptive-maternal relationship between the babies and their mother figure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1683 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/files\/2016\/06\/IMG_2236-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2236\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During each interaction, there is something new to discover about each elephant and their personality. They seem to\u00a0communicate wordlessly\u2014a skill that I very much admire while in a country\u00a0where I don&#8217;t know the language!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1675 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/files\/2016\/06\/IMG_2132-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2132 (1)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1679 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/files\/2016\/06\/IMG_2139-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2139\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the week progressed, we began to learn more about each elephant&#8217;s personal story. Some had been at Elephants World a long time, but others were very new and still showed signs of overwork or abuse. We learned which elephants were friends, and which ones were feuding. We waited anxiously\u00a0for one pregnant elephant to give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2759,"featured_media":1671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62810],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thailandsoutheast-asia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1315\/2016\/06\/IMG_2152.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions\/2275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}