Elephant Matriarch (IMAGE)

Wildlife Conservation Society

Elephant Matriarch

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In a recent paper in The Royal Society's Biology Letters, conservationists with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Zoological of London found that the oldest matriarch elephants may retain valuable memories of permanent sources of food and water and their that become crucial in times of drought.

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(c) Charles Foley

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