We found this video online of a study about elephants, and had to share it.
Footage of an oversized experiment has revealed that elephants understand when they need help from a partner. In the test, two animals had to work together - each pulling on a rope in order to tug a platform towards them.
Elephants' apparent grasp of the need to co-operate shows, scientists say, that they belong in an "elite group" of intelligent, socially complex animals. Researchers from the University of Cambridge built the apparatus, which was originally designed for chimps.
The team published their findings in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Study leader Dr. Joshua Plotnik from the University of Cambridge told the BBC it was exciting to find a way to study elephant behaviour in such detail.
"It's so hard to work with elephants because of their size," he said. "We see them doing amazing things in the wild, but we can see from this that they're definitely co-operating."
Read more at BBC Earth News.
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You know, it is really amazing that animals are so much smarter than we humans often give them credit for. That is why I love science, it proves each day things that we did not know and brings to light some amazing details that could have just passed us by. And, of course, elephants are spectacular!
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