In order to reach inaccessible food, Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) blast air through their trunks. The elephants appear to manipulate their breath according to the distance, which may indicate advanced understanding of their physical environment. Should elephants breath be defined as a “tool”?
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Asian elephants acquire inaccessible food by blowing
Kaori Mizuno, Naoko Irie, Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, Nobuyuki Kutsukake
Animal Cognition, DOI 10.1007/s10071-015-0929-2
