Bengaluru: YouTube helps IISc scientist's study jumbo grief
Watching animal videos on streaming platforms is not uncommon. In fact, there are even studies about their popularity. But when three researchers from the Centre for Ecological Sciences of Indian Institute of Science (IISc) — Sanjeeta Sharma Pokharel, Nachiketha Sharma and Raman Sukumar — sat down to review YouTube videos of Asian elephants, it was for reasons more than the videos just being “cute”. They were studying the behaviour of these animals, especially how they react to death.