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 ...

A new study has documented the abilities of individual wild Asian elephants to access food by solving puzzles that unlocked storage boxes. It is the first research study to show that individual wild ...

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 ...

If you ever get an opportunity to go to Thailand, chances are you'll come home with a souvenir with the country's national animal on it…the Asian elephant. Elephants are more than a point of pride in ...

“One weekend I was listening to the radio, and I heard that Ginsberg had died. My brain went ‘oh,’” recalls Professor of Anthropology Susan Kaplan. The Ginsberg in question was a celebrity elephant ...

In the clip, an elephant uses brute strength (and a little engineering) to topple a tree and bring high leaves within reach—an iconic example of elephant problem-solving. African elephants are the ...

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 ...