A new study has documented the abilities of individual wild Asian elephants to access food by solving puzzles that unlocked storage boxes. It is the first research study to show that individual wild ...

Animal cognition scientists designed an open-air experiment to test wild elephants’ problem-solving abilities for the first time. They observed that Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) at Salakpra ...

The elephant has the largest brain of any land mammal. Its ‘grey matter’ — crucial to thinking and problem-solving — is also more extensive. Impressive mental feats, therefore, might be expected of ...

African savanna elephant Tembo, at the San Diego Zoo, was one of the elephant participants in the study. (Lisa Barrett Photo) Just as humans have their own individual personalities, new research in ...