"Elephants Never Forget"

       "Fact or Fiction?: Elephants Never Forget: Scientific American." Fact or Fiction?: Elephants Never Forget: Scientific American. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2013.

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        Elephants never forget. Research has been done to prove that elephants remember acquaintances in life even if it’s been years. They might have poor eye sight but they have a very prodigious memory. Their memory might have been adapted from having to keep track of other elephants in herds, also to tell whether an elephant is a part of their herd or a stranger. They can also tell whether an elephant is a part of the herd or not by the smell of another elephant’s urine. At the elephant sanctuary in Tennessee, two elephants were put together in a sanctuary and without the keeper knowing the two elephants had already known each other from past acquaintance while in the zoo life. They actually figured out that it was 23 years later. It’s very interesting to me that an elephant can remember for that long.