DO ELEPHANTS EVER FORGET?1

1 September 1975

journal article
letter
Published by Wiley in Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

Vol. 8 (3) , 333-335
https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.1975.8-333

Abstract

Three adult female elephants (Elephas maximus) were tested on a light-dark discrimination problem with an 8-yr intertrial interval. The first subject took only 6 min to reach criterion and made only two errors, suggesting remarkable retention. The other two subjects were found to have visual anomalies that would have gone undetected without this research.

Keywords

ELEPHANTS
MEMORY
VISION
VISUAL DISCRIMINATION
BEHAVIORAL ENGINEERING IN THE ZOO
LONG-TERM MEMORY

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Zeitschrift Fur Tierpsychologie, 1953