Saturday, November 7, 2015

Elephants may use trunks like ‘leaf blowers’ to obtain inaccessible food

Elephants may use trunks like ‘leaf blowers’ to obtain inaccessible food
Elephants may use trunks like ‘leaf blowers’ to obtain inaccessible food
Two captive elephants blast air through their trunks to grasp hard-to-reach food, suggests an initial study published today in Springer’s journal Animal Cognition. This behaviour, studied in a zoo population of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus), is altered...

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