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Another show did their own experiment to see if elephants were indeed afraid of mice. On 20/20, the host contacted the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.The elephant trainer, Troy Metzler ...
Like Thorndike's cats and dogs, the 13 elephants that did master a black/white or large/small discrimination task did so gradually, over several sessions. The slope of the time-curve again suggested the elephants failed to understand the cause-effect relationships between lid removal and food retrieval.
The performance of dogs in these studies is superior to that of NHPs, [39] however, some have stated categorically that dogs do not possess a human-like ToM. [12] [40] Similarly, dogs preferentially use the behaviour of the human Knower to indicate the location of food. This is unrelated to the sex or age of the dog. In another study, 14 of 15 ...
The researchers found that mice given the highest quality food required more time to eat when their partner had received no food. They found no difference in behavior when the other mouse received a lower-quality food. They concluded that their findings suggest that mice recognize and compare others' situation and alter their behavior accordingly.
Animals in difficult environments, such as drought-prone savannas, benefit from excellent long-term memories. As we’ve seen, elephants have a large cerebral cortex capable of creating a large ...
Elephant meat has been consumed by humans for over a million years. One of the oldest sites suggested to represent elephant butchery is from Dmanisi in Georgia with cut marks found on the bones of the extinct mammoth species Mammuthus meridionalis, which dates to around 1.8 million years ago, [4] with other butchery sites for this species reported from Spain dating to around 1.2 million years ...
"Elephants live in a so-called 'fission-fusion' society, where they often separate and reunite, meeting after hours, days or months For elephants, like people, greetings are a complicated affair ...
In Asian forests, large seeds require giant herbivores like elephants and rhinoceros for transport and dispersal. This ecological niche cannot be filled by the smaller Malayan tapir. [93] Because most of the food elephants eat goes undigested, their dung can provide food for other animals, such as dung beetles and monkeys. [91]