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10/30/2025

5 Mind-blowing facts about elephant intelligence!

10/24/2025

Thailand- 💔 The wild baby elephant that found wandering alone in Buriram has passed away 💔

10/20/2025

🎦This video shows a herd of African elephants entering a cave on Mount Elgon to mine for salt using their tusks — it’s one of the few places in the world where wild elephants are known to go underground.

Credit: BBC — https://youtu.be/ijkYW57rQyk?si=1aMd829M0LXbuAGK
📍 Mount Elgon, Kenya

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Want more natural history and wildlife videos? Visit the official BBC Earth channel: http://bit.ly/BBCEarthWWBBC EarthThe BBC Earth YouTube channel is home t...

10/18/2025

🥰Happy weekend!

10/18/2025

Paper about Asian elephant cognition to read this weekend 📑 https://shorturl.at/2weIT

10/17/2025

💡A new study reveals that Asian elephants, like their African cousins, understand when others are paying attention 👀— a key skill for effective communication 🗣️

Reading the full article 📄 https://shorturl.at/TUDg1

Visual attention has mostly been studied in primarily visual species, such as nonhuman primates. Although elephants rely more on acoustic and olfactory cues, they also use visual displays and gestures to communicate. Smet and Byrne (2014) showed that African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana) re...

10/17/2025

💙🐘🔬💔When science loses funding, we lose stories, discoveries, and connections.

🌻Thanks to The New York Times for giving voice to those scientists who have lost funding or positions — allowing them to share their work and highlight the critical importance of support for scientific research 💪

Our director discusses in today's New York Times the implications of our research and the loss of U.S. federal funding. If you're interested in donating to help us continue our research, please reach out!

Read the full story from The New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/science/elephants-cognition-plotnik.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t08.8bMe.E9eCDVfmLWK_&smid=url-share

10/16/2025

📣You are invited! You can attend in-person or online 🤩

🐘 Ever wonder what elephants are thinking? 💡

Join Dr. Joshua Plotnik, director of our research team and the Comparative Cognition for Conservation Lab at Hunter College, for Elephant Personalities — a fascinating in-person and virtual event in NYC! 🌆

Discover how understanding elephant behavior helps conservation efforts. 🌿

📅 Tuesday, Oct 21 | 🕕 6:30 PM EDT| 📍 Hunter College – West Lobby
👉 RSVP here: https://tinyurl.com/26ky5zt2

05/06/2025

この動画は、5月 3日に実施予定のライブ配信です。大牟田市動物園にはゾウがいません。ゾウは群れでくらす動物で、大牟田市動物園には群れのゾウがくらすために十分なスペースがないからです。ゾウってどんな動物で、...

10/07/2024

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08/09/2024

This one was difficult to write but I am honored PNAS let me write it. Thank you to Catherine Marin for her love and support and to Frans de Waal Frans de Waal - Public Page for being…well, Frans.

Frans B. M. de Waal, 1948 to 2024: Primatologist and evolutionary cognition researcher who brought us closer to our nonhuman relatives