'Asian elephants good at maths'

TOKYO: Asian elephants can do mathematics, proving their skill at addition in an experiment with their favourite food, a Japanese researcher said on Monday. One elephant was 87 per cent correct and the other 69 per cent right in months of addition exercises involving single digits, according to Naoko Irie of the University of Tokyo. In one test, researchers dropped three apples into one bucket and five into... [read full story]