These Elephants Can Use Hoses to Shower—and Even 'Sabotage' …
1 day ago · Watch on. But another Asian elephant, 12-year-old Anchali, appeared to understand how to use the hose to play tricks on Mary. When Mary was showering herself, Anchali would often squeeze, clamp ...
This elephant learned to use a hose as a shower. Then her
6 days ago · A few weeks after the experiments began, Anchali figured out she could interrupt her colleague’s showers by picking the hose up with her trunk and kinking it to stop the water flow. Brecht says his lab members didn’t initially believe Anchali was …
Elephants Use Water Hoses with Impressive Skill —and Even
Shower sabotage. Anchali would kink the hose to cut off Mary’s water supply, suggesting a kind of second-order tool use — using a tool (the hose) not just to accomplish a task, but to ...
Impossibly Adorable Footage Shows an Elephant Turning a Hose
2 days ago · The researchers charted the extent of Anchali’s repetitive “kink-and-clamp” actions across different sessions. They found that her bratty ability to block the flow of water increased over time.
Elephant Anchali kinks the hose to stop the flow of water ... - ABC News
5 days ago · Elephant Anchali kinks the hose to stop the flow of water. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we ...
Elephant turns a hose into a sophisticated showering tool
6 days ago · But what surprised them most was the way fellow Asian elephant Anchali reacted during Mary's showering. The two elephants showed aggressive interactions around showering time, the researchers say.
Elephant that washes herself with a hose fascinates researchers
3 days ago · The team also observed fellow elephant Anchali, who seemed to interrupt Mary's bath time by trying to stop the water flow with her trunk. The findings, published in the journal Current Biology ...
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6 days ago · The researchers say that the findings offer a new example of goal-directed tool use. But what surprised them most was the way fellow Asian elephant Anchali reacted during …
Watch a clever elephant use a hose to get clean - Popular Science
6 days ago · VIDEO: Anchali’s Kink and clamp behavior. The authors of this study were very surprised by this behavior. ... Laura is a science news writer, covering a wide variety of subjects, but she is ...
Water-hose tool use and showering behavior by Asian elephants
6 days ago · We were wondering whether Anchali purposefully interrupted the water flow going to the showering Mary or whether it was a side-effect of her playing and interacting with the water hose. Several strands of evidence suggest that Anchali was intentionally aiming to …