Source: Cari Zuckerman, used with permission. Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.-A.A.Milne Over the past months, we have been listening to workers engaged in ...

Animal cognition scientists designed an open-air experiment to test wild elephants’ problem-solving abilities for the first time. They observed that Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) at Salakpra ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the clip, an elephant uses brute strength (and a little engineering) to topple a tree and bring high leaves within reach—an ...

New York, September 27, 2023 – Individual innovation is considered one sign of intelligence within species, and elephants are among the animals that researchers have long taken an interest in because ...

Insightful Problem Solving in an Asian Elephant. Kandula, an 8-year old Asian elephant at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, demonstrates insightful problem solving by positioning a tractor tire under a ...