Elephants like a familiar face
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - 07:28
in Biology & Nature
Everyone knows it's a bad idea to talk to strangers, and it seems elephants feel the same way, according to new research in the Journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Researchers from the University of California studied elephants when they arrived in an ecologically unfamiliar environment, and were surprised to find they formed immigrant enclaves, rather than forming new acquaintances...
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