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☆ Asian elephants bury their dead, study suggests
  + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
CNN —Researchers in India have for the first time documented how Asian elephants bury dead calves. While African elephants are known to bury dead calves, this is the first time that the behavior has been documented in Asian elephants, study author Akashdeep Roy, a researcher at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), told CNN on Wednesday. A dead calf being dragged by an adult. This is the first time that calf burials by Asian elephants have been documented. Roy contests this theory, explaining that contusions on the backs of the dead calves show that they were dragged to their resting place by other members of the herd.
Persons: Akashdeep Roy, Roy, “, ”, Parveen Kaswan, Joshua Plotnik, ” Plotnik, couldn’t, Plotnik Organizations: CNN —, Indian Institute of Science Education, Research, CNN, Indian Forest Service, Hunter College Locations: India, Bengal, Assam, New York
☆ An elephant living in a Berlin zoo has taught herself how to peel a banana
  + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Kate Golembiewski | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
Now a team of researchers in Berlin have documented an elephant using her trunk for another novel behavior: peeling bananas. Pang Pha was a baby when she arrived at the Berlin Zoo, where she was fed bananas. Lena KaufmannThe star of this new study, an Asian elephant named Pang Pha, was a baby when she arrived at the Berlin Zoo in 1987. When Pang Pha peels a banana, she doesn’t crack the stem and peel down the sides one by one. It’s also not possible to definitively say that she learned to peel bananas by copying her human caretaker.
☆ These are the world's smartest animals, according to science
  + stars: | 2014-04-23 | by ( Dina Spector | Rebecca Cohen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +12 min
While we know parrots can mimic human language, studies show they actually have an understanding of that language. It also becomes difficult to compare between species since most intelligence tests or tasks are designed for specific animals. Animals evolve certain kinds of cognitive abilities to deal with pressures in their natural habitat, said Virginia Morell, author of "Animal Wise." We also tend to underestimate the brainpower of animals by relying too much on intelligence tests based on what humans are capable of. The good news is "we're getting a better idea of how animals think and experience the world," Morrell said.
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