AN ELEPHANT NEVER FORGETS…

October 2007

The smell of a hunter!  New study, to appear in Current Biology, shows that elephants apparently remember the smell and look of clothes worn by Maasai hunters, but are not perturbed by the clothes of Kamba agriculturalists who pose no threat.

BBC summaryCurrent Biology article (open access).

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