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Asian elephant does arithmetic

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com... A cunning Asian elephant bests a science reporter at a simple counting game.  
 
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syed790 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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its something in the asain FOOD! asia rules!!! wahoo!
thestarduster (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Elephant intelligence is so underrated.
I believe they are the most intelligent animals, especially considering their brain has the most amount of neurons compared to any other animal and have the most learning to undergo (after humans).
kirafish7 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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There's a theory that it's not actually how many neurons a brain has that determines intelligence, but how many glial cells, or scaffolding/neuron-nourishing cells, the brain has.
thestarduster (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Well the neurons are part of memory, problem solving and emotions which elephants score highly on. They have lots of glial cells too.
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FrontalTraction (8 months ago) Show Hide
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Smart Elephants!
RLore18 (10 months ago) Show Hide
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I read about something similar with a horse who stomped its hoof to perform simple addition, as if it understood a math problem verbally spoken to it. Turns out under controlled conditions the horse wouldn't stop stomping in time and the horse was looking for cues from its owner. The horse was able to read facial expressions and it was likely that the owner would congratulate the horse right after it stomped the correct amount of times, causing it to learn to stop then.
gotyx1 (1 year ago) Show Hide
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whats recjon? xD (im from swe)
TiagoTiagoT (11 months ago) Show Hide
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I believe aiishunVBoii meant "reckon", K and J are right next to each other in qwerty keyboards (if you don't know what that word means, doing a Google search for "define:reckon" (without quotes but with the : ) or looking it up on Wikitionary or whatever should do it :)
gotyx1 (11 months ago) Show Hide
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yeah, i didnt know any word "reckon" so, i wouldnt think of recjon as reckon. but i know the right place to look it up

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