Elephants can distinguish between human languages

By Roxanne Reid
We all know elephants have good memories. But did you know that African elephants are so clever that they candistinguish between different human languagesand consciously keep their distance from people they see as a threat? Man is not the elephant’s best friend, and the animals are particularly vulnerable because of habitat loss and illegal hunting for their ivory tusks. Now researchers in Amboseli National Park in Kenya are discovering how elephants understand and react to...