Elephant Corner

Mentality, Cognition, and Behavior of Elephants

Fiction:   1. Moti Guj     2. The Elephant's Child   3. Toomai of the Elephants  4. The Blind Men and the Elephant:  a. Buddhist Parable   b. Saxe's version

Listen to some elephant sounds:  trumpet  /  piping  / grumble

Accessible Reviews:  1. Elephant Brain 

Elephant Anecdotes

 

Some of My Articles about Elephant Cognition:  1. Theory of Mind and Insight in Chimpanzees, Elephants, and Other Animals? (Nissani, 2004)  2. In Defense of Anecdotes (Nissani, an internet essay).  3. Absence of Mirror Self-Referential Behavior in Two Asian Elephants.  4. Simultaneous Visual Discrimination in Asian Elephants (Nissani, Hoefler-Nissani, Lay, & Htun, 2005). 5. A. Elephant Intelligence (in MS WORD Format--an earlier, more informal, informative, and fun, version of a January 2006 J. of Experimental Psychology article). B. Elephant Intelligence (the formal article).  6. Do Animals Think? (a talk Given at the 30^th International Ethological Conference, August 18, 2007, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada).  7. Do Animals Think? (A  Lecture to Undergraduates, 2008).  

 

Films and Video Clips of our Research:

1. Film in 17 parts:  The Inner Life of Elephants: Experiments in Burma and Detroit: 

Watch  Entire film (in 17 parts, 2008)

Read or download film script

2  White/Black Discrimination Design

3. Large/Small Discrimination Design

4. Do Elephants Understand What an Obstacle is? (Lid Variation) (3.4 MB)

5. Do Elephants Understand What an Obstacle is? (Box Variation) (1.1 MB)

 

Logging Elephants of Myanmar:  A Slide Show

Some Experiments with Elephants:  A Slide Show

Visit my elephant class

 

Some Great Elephant Links (in progress):  1. Elephant News    2  Savanna Elephant Vocalization Project  3.   Facts and information about captive and wild elephants  4. Save the Elephants  5. Gajah: Journal of the IUCN/SSC Asian Elephant Specialist Group

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Music courtesy of Thai Orchestra Elephant Band