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This news from New Scientist magazine:

""I even get confused when I'm dropping the bait," says Naoko Irie, a researcher at the University of Tokyo, Japan, who uncovered the elephant's inner genius. She presented her findings last week at the International Society for Behavioral Ecology's annual meeting in Ithaca, New York.

Moreover, Irie found that as well as summing small numbers with almost 90% accuracy, elephants can discriminate between small numbers."

Frigging amazing. Monkeys, dolphins and now elephants have these basic skills down. It will only be a matter of time until the animals are in college.

Read the full article & watch the video at: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14569