Normally, elephants eat bananas whole, skin and all, but one elephant at the Berlin Zoo likes to peel some of her bananas first — a skill researchers believe she learned from watching humans, shining more light on the incredible cognitive abilities of elephants.
Pang Pha, an Asian elephant who lives at the Berlin Zoo, is pictured in this screenshot of a video showcasing her banana-peeling abilities.
“What makes Pang Pha's banana peeling so unique is a combination of factors—skillfulness, speed, individuality, and the putatively human origin—rather than a single behavioral element,” Michael Brecht of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin’s Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience and one of the study authors,Pang Pha is an Asian elephant who lives in the Berlin Zoo, and while she is happy to eat green or bright yellow bananas whole, peel and all, the way that elephants normally do...
When they tested to see if she would repeat this behaviour with bananas at different levels of ripeness, a clear pattern emerged: brown bananas were rejected outright, and she still ate green and yellow bananas whole. The idea of removing the banana from its peel to eat it is something that is rare in elephants, researchers believe.
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