Can competing schools of elephant conservation find common ground?
Dec 15, 2017
3 minutes
Imagine that an elephant approaches a village inhabited by blind men. Having never encountered such a creature, each approaches with arms outstretched eager to feel what they cannot see.
One man, touching a leg, declares the beast thick and strong like a tree trunk. Another, after encountering the trunk, describes the animal as squirmy like a snake. A third, after feeling the tip of a tusk, notes it is sharp like a spear. Eventually, a sighted man arrives and informs the men that they are all partly right but that they are also all wrong, a product
Little cooperation so farGetting both sides to the tableYou’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.
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