elephant eatingMore Japanese researchers with nothing to do (remember the whales), have learned, or think they learned that elephants not only don’t forget, they can count, too.

In addition exercises, one elephant scored 87% and another scored 69%. American elephants scored in the lower percentile, wondering aloud “What’s addition?”

Researchers dropped different amounts of food into a bucket, blindfolded the elephant to to determine if Dumbo could conclude which bucket had the most food in it. The animals were tested using their favorite foods – oranges, cabbages, apples and little children.

I wonder, did they think to ask the elephants that got wrong answers if they were hungry or not?

The elephants were able to distinguish between the addition of just one food item, meaning, it’s not just pure guessing. Here’s a question I have – did the elephants know they were being tested? And, did they pray before the tests?

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