josh plotnik and his team are trying to find a way for people and elephants to live here peacefully. thailand. >> there's always been elephants here. there's always been farms. why the problem now? >> yeah, but there haven't always been as many farmers, as many people, as much technology, as much infrastructure. inevitably when you reduce the space that wildlife has, they have to find the resources they need. sometimes those resources are in crop fields. and people react negatively to that. >> is there a breaking point? >> there definitely is, and i think we're getting close to it simply because we don't have solutions to these problems. and all we can do as scientists, conservationists, is to try to find ways to ensure that elephants have what they need while at the same time humans have what they need. >> nice office. >> my favorite office. >> josh plotnik spends summer salakpra sanctuary and is a professor of animal behavior and cognition at hunter college in new york. for the past 13 years, he's led the only research team inside thailand dedicated to understanding elephant psycho