🐘 Can elephants learn from observing and imitating others? A recent study in Current Biology suggests so. Meet Pang Pha, the Asian elephant at the Berlin Zoo who peels her bananas before eating them! 🍌🐘 elephants mimicry learning
Elephants love eating bananas, and feast on them whole whenever they can. But Pang Pha, a 36-year-old Asian elephant who lives at the Berlin Zoo, is a little more precious: she happens to prefer her bananasWhile growing up, Pha was under the custody of an attentive caretaker who used to peel her bananas for her. Now, she seems to have taught herself to break the banana against her trunk and wriggle the insides of the fruit from its peel, discarding the latter and savoring just the pulp.
“She developed a very impressive peeling algorithm, you know, she's faster than humans, about three times faster,” says Brecht. “And that's quite something because we have two hands, right? She has just one trunk.”
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