Water|hose tool use and showering behavior by Asian elephants

As part of the morning routine, elephants were showered with a water hose by the keepers and had access to water to drink and spray themselves.

... hose into a sophisticated showering tool ... The captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) also exhibited “highly lateralized” behaviors ...

https://scitechdaily.com/watch-remarkable-elephant-turns-a-simple-hose-into-a-sophisticated-showering-tool/ This is a video abstract for the ...

Water-hose tool use and showering behavior by Asian elephants. Curr Biol. 2024 Nov 6:S0960-9822(24)01371-X. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.10.017.

“As it is often the case with elephants, hose tool use behaviors come out very differently from animal to animal; elephant Mary is the queen of ...

Reference: “Water-hose tool use and showering behavior by Asian elephants” by Lea Urban, Rolf Becker, Andreas Ochs, Florian Sicks, Michael ...

... Water-hose tool use and showering behavior by Asian elephants . Curr. Biol. 34. And read more great research at http://www.cell.com/current ...

An Asian elephant has been not-so-secretly filmed showering with a water ... “As it is often the case with elephants, hose tool use behaviours ...

An Asian elephant has been dubbed the “queen of showering” after it ... As it is often the case with elephants, hose tool use behaviours ...

"As it is often the case with elephants, hose tool use behaviors come ... Water-hose tool use and showering behavior by Asian elephants.

In the Berlin Zoo, Mary demonstrated another example of clever elephantine tool use while another animal exhibited a form of mischief with a ...

... hose and clamping it with her trunk, potentially to disrupt Mary's water supply. “This behaviour is unique and shows goal-directed tool use ...

Not only does Mary the Asian elephant prefer to shower herself, but she's really good at it. So good, in fact, that her dexterous bath-time ...

Asian elephants at Berlin Zoo show impressive skill when using a hose as a tool, and even appear to sabotage each other by stopping the flow ...

... tool use behavior, disabling a tool in more conventional use by a fellow elephant, perhaps as an act of sabotage. As this behavior went on ...

“As it is often the case with elephants, hose tool use behaviors ... This Asian elephant has developed a knack for showering herself using a hose.

Researchers at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Berlin Zoological Garden studied water-hose tool use among three female elephants—Mary, ...

... Garden describe water hose tool use in Asian elephants. Bernstein ... showering behaviors using a trunk-held water hose. Mary ...

“As it is often the case with elephants, hose tool use behaviors ... Asian elephant named Anchali reacted during Mary's showering. Both ...

An Asian elephant has been not-so-secretly filmed showering with a water ... “As it is often the case with elephants, hose tool use behaviours ...