More 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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Do you remember the Japanese sailor, environmentalist and adventurer Kenichi Horie that was going from Hawaii to Japan on his double-hull boat, “Suntory Marmaid II”, using just the power of the waves?

Horie, who will turn 70 in September, completed the 110-day solo trans-Pacific on July 5th and is now the first in the world to do it. The main delay in finishing the voyage by the end of May was the fact that weak waves slowed him down and “that’s the problem to be solved”.

He reached his destination in the channel between the main Japanese islands of Honshu and Shikoku just before midnight (15:00 GMT) on Friday after covering some 7,000 kilometers (3,780 nautical miles).

“The feeling is yet to sink in. I want to go home as soon as possible and eat home-cooked meals.” he said upon arrival.

What can we say? Congratulations and good appetite.