When a baby elephant nearly drowns, a large group of adults rushes in to help with the rescue.
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When an elephant at the zoo gets her foot stuck in a tire swing, members of the herd come to her aid.
In a recent study, elephants who heard people speaking different languages behaved fearfully when listening to language spoken by a tribe that had previously killed members of their herd in retaliation for the herd attacking some of their cattle, but they did not act alarmed after hearing other tribal languages or English being spoken.
Elephants that watch apples being placed in separate buckets consistently pick the more plentiful bucket, even when the containers only differ by a single piece of fruit.
Hong the elephant may not be creating a self aware, free-form portrait, but her skilled recreation of a learned pattern of brushstrokes demonstrates artistic prowess through refined motor control and visual memory.
According to this commercial for 60 Minutes, tonight’s episode will cover communication among elephants and ongoing research efforts to compile a dictionary of elephant vocab.
