This study makes connections between two sources of individual variation, personality and cognition, in threatened species. Just as humans have their own individual personalities, new research in the ...

A 7-year-old Asian elephant named Kandula at the Smithsonian National Zoo wowed his keepers when he devised a strategy to use a large plastic cube to obtain out-of-reach food. And when the cube wasn't ...

The elephant has the largest brain of any land mammal. Its ‘grey matter’ — crucial to thinking and problem-solving — is also more extensive. Impressive mental feats, therefore, might be expected of ...

Just as humans have their own individual personalities, new research in the Journal of Comparative Psychology shows that elephants have personalities, too. Moreover, an elephant's personality may play ...

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 ...

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 camera trap screenshot captured a bull elephant interacting with one of the puzzle boxes in the Salakpra Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand. The configuration of the puzzle box is a push door at the top, ...