Asian elephants can do mathematics
September 2, 2008 TOKYO (AFP) - Asian elephants can do mathematics, proving their skill at addition in an experiment with their favourite food, a Japanese researcher said Monday.
One elephant was 87 percent correct and the other 69 percent right in months of addition exercises involving single digits, according to Naoko Irie of the University of Tokyo.
In one test, researchers dropped three apples into one bucket and five into another bucket and then added two apples to each.
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