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Elephants Show Talent for Resisting Impulses
The elephants consistently chose an indirect route to food, and older animals adjusted more slowly when the box was rotated, researchers said.
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Elephants Show Talent for Resisting Impulses
In experiments in Thailand, Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) learned to ignore an enticing but ineffective route to food and quickly adapted when a familiar solution stopped working. The post Elephants Show Talent for Resisting Impulses appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.
To evaluate this behavior, the team subjected sixteen Asian elephants to tests at the National Elephant Institute in Thailand.
·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Are elephants stubbornly grasping for visible food or do they choose the wiser detour? Researchers prove that the animals also suppress impulses and flexibly rethink them. Knowledge could become important for living with humans.
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