Aging in the wild: lessons from animals about the value of growing old | Kira Cassidy | TEDxBozeman
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- What do wolves and societal attitudes toward elderly humans have in common? Kira Cassidy relates her research on Yellowstone wolves with other wildlife studies focused on understanding the value of older individuals in group-living species. Cassidy explains how these studies highlight the value of what old individuals can teach us: where we've gone wrong, what we might be missing, and what we can do to fix it.
Kira Cassidy was raised in Illinois where she developed a deep respect for wildlife and the outdoors through a childhood of (purposely) getting lost in the forest, raising three baby raccoons, and gardening for subsistence with her family. Kira holds her M.S. degree from the University of Minnesota, with projects focusing on territoriality and aggression between packs of gray wolves. Now working as a Research Associate for the Yellowstone Wolf Project, Kira’s scientific interests include territorial dynamics, the evolution of sociality, and the value of the individual in group-living species. Kira has assisted film crews in Yellowstone National Park and on Ellesmere Island, living with an arctic wolf family during the summer of 2014 in the effort to help communicate science to the public through different forms of media. Kira lives in Gardiner, Montana and can be found painting, reading, flying a kite, or exploring with her two distant wolf-descendants (hound dogs Badger and Wyatt).
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Super under rated Ted Talk imho. The lack of likes on this almost supports her point. In America we kick our kids out at 18 when they’re capable to be self sufficient, and discard our elders to homes when they’re no longer self sufficient. It’s because the entire societies focus is productivity. That came with amazing benefits to standard of living but I think America and now much of the world has lost the plot. Would you want all of the nice things and money if you had no one to share it with? Do you only want friends and family to the extent the enable you to acquire junk? Humans conquered the world so now our main prerogative is conquering each other.
Love this!! Thank you so much for spreading what Most People would other wise have no Idea about.. :)
Wow! So interesting! thanks you, Kira!
Now that's what I've been talking about and saying for years. watch animals they are our ancient teachers. they have much to tell if left to live in peace. as we all were intended to do.
As social as humans are, we seem to use our "packs" more to drive others away than to support our own. From my understanding wolves and other animals plan ahead according to what benefits the pack as a whole, while humans just want to complete a project and don't consider the entire community impact. We lose a lot when we ignore our elders. Enjoyed the talk, but not the comment about child care, even wolves have babysitters:)
Thank you for your Ted Talk. Ageless wisdom. Our society has truly diminished the value of our senior population. As I enter my sixth decade, I am inspired. I also realize that I have a solemn responsibility, to do my best to impart wisdom and not to just squander my final decades in comfort. I pray that I may be able to be valuable and not a burden.
Thank you! This is really inspiring!
We seem to have forgotten the value of the eldest for the forthcomining of a society. Everybody knows it somehow, but in science just as in humanities we lost it out of sight. So it is no wonder that in business and politics the elements of of their value are not even considered. From my point of view this explaines a lot. Thank you again!
True speech!
WOW great talk, Thank You
I appreciate that you focused on Wolves, Elephants for the wisdom of the oldest members in their pack or herd. I've been researching Wild Wolves for the past sixteen years and I've got to say that you got all the facts straight and it was enjoyable to listen to you. And for that I thank You! A'ho
Thats why the Indian Undivided families are very succesfull in business ! this is the only reason i can see !
Wonderful! Thank you so much!
Excellent.
WONDERFUL!!!!
Rarity is valued. The more of us live to old age, the less we are valued, in some senses. "To listen to what each other has to say." To share what each person has learned in the saga of their life, with others.
awesome I loved it
How do we teach this to our young? Even societies that practice this reverence for the elderly are changing, with success comes impatience for learning from the slower elders. Taking kids to daycare is simpler.
I heard somewhere when a elder dies it's like a library being buried down, all that wisdom and knowledge lost!
Although I believe that the difference between the human species and animals species is that humans no longer need to depend upon their elders for survival; or the fact that humans are subject to different and often better viewpoints only through exposure from other sources outside the family unit, and how this benefits society as a whole.. I don't agree with how we humans treat the elderly in our societies (especially western ones) how we stereotype them, and how we disregard them.. the modern world has marginalized them, and the family unit as a whole in so many different ways.. sad because all of us will grow old eventually and know the pain of this..
Now I know why the passing of the Queen was so devasting.
Very nice
This holds true for bands of horses. The “long term matriarch “ leads ... her daughter is likely to assume her position.
f the young could know, if the old could...
if the wolves had internet, they would build conzentration camps for the elderly too.