Scientists used AI to figure out elephants have names for themselves

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Elephants in Kenya in 2023.

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Botswana offers to send 20,000 elephants to Germany, saying it should try looking after them instead of criticizing

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Botswana's elephant population is causing concern for the country's leaders.

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How elephants 'hear' with their feet, and how you can do it, too

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Elephants can use their feet to sense vibrations in the ground.

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World's 'saddest' elephant dies after more than 40 years alone in a concrete pen at Manila Zoo

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Visitors watch the elephant named "Mali" inside an enclosure at Manila zoo in 2013.

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A tiny ancient elephant that roamed Sicily 200,000 years ago had babies the size of pet dogs

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An adult Sicilian dwarf elephant was about the size of Shetland pony. Its baby was more akin to a dog.

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I Got a Sneak Peek of the American Museum of Natural History’s ‘The Secret World of Elephants’

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The largest land mammal of our time has an evolutionary story at least 60 million years in the making.

35 elephants suddenly dropped dead in 2020. Their case has finally been solved.

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It's Not Just You and Your Friends: Some Elephants Are Better at Puzzle Solving Than Others

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Just like people, some elephants might have more of a knack for puzzles than others, new research this week suggests. The study of wild Asian elephants at an animal sanctuary found that only some were willing and able to solve a puzzle box that offered food as a reward, and even fewer cracked all three types of…

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The 'mammoth meatball' grown in a lab probably doesn't taste like woolly mammoth at all

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A meatball made from flesh cultivated using the DNA of an extinct woolly mammoth is presented at NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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An Asian elephant learned to peel her own bananas with her trunk — and may have figured it out after watching her caretaker do it for her

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An elephant at the Berlin Zoo really likes peeling her bananas.

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