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#318: Exploring Life's Trails, Literally and Metaphorically

The Art of Manliness

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How Do More Complex Animals Make Trails?

Most mammals look at a trail and say, that's a trail, or whether they just think something along the lines of, there's less vegetation there, so it's easier to walk. But when it comes to the larger and smarter mammals, especially elephants, it's pretty clear that it is a deliberative process. We the elephants have incredibly powerful memories and incredible sense organs,. So when they go somewhere, they tend to know where they're going. And they pass down their trails from generation to generation.

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