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The thoughtful giant

Many Minds

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Is There a Difference Between African Elephants and Asian Elephants?

In Asia, there is a long history of bringing elephants from the wild into captivity to tame them. And so that's made it easier to study their cognition. But when I did this study and the elephants didn't follow the pointing cues that the mahoots were giving or I was giving, the mahoots got really angry at me. They actually said that they thought I was saying that the elephants were stupid. That put us on an entire trajectory in our research.

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