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Elephants have a head for figures

Started by mjschindler · 8 months ago

An Asian elephant bests a science reporter at a simple counting game. Video courtesy of Naoko Irie/University of Tokyo
Elephants are famous for their supposedly superb memory. Now it seems that they are good at simple maths too.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have found an Asian el ... Continue reading »

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  • Steve

    10 months ago

    I guess they have to be good an mental arithmetic because they're fingers are too big to use a calculator.
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  • mjschindler

    10 months ago

    Good point, Steve.

    We should build elephant-size calculators so they can start learning calculus and trigonometry!
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