(Naoko Irie/AFP/Getty Images): A female elephant at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo - sharper than your average child
by Leo Lewis The elephant's memory is legendary, but in a large, grey surprise to science the mighty Asian elephant turns out to have a distinct flair for maths as well
Under carefully controlled experimental conditions — essentially comprising a large cage and two buckets of assorted fruit — one elephant at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo managed to get its sums right 87 per cent of the time. A slightly less gifted pachyderm across the country in Kyoto scored a still respectable 69 per cent.
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008