Re: [xmca] more tool use among the beasts

[Bella Kotik-Friedgut <bella.kotik@gmail.com>]

please visit
http://www.elephantart.com/catalog/default.php
 to see the art of elephants.
Some time ago Valery Komar repeated the project with elephants in Jerusalem
ZOO and we watched them working

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote:

> Wild elephants recently rampaged through parts of Bangladesh, and according
> to the head of the country's Wildlife Trust, those super-intelligent
> animals
> "are quick to learn human strategies."  For example, he pointed to reports
> that elephants (protecting their migration corridors) routine swipe torches
> from hunters and hurl them not randomly but directly at the hunters' homes.
>
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Sincerely yours Bella Kotik-Friedgut
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