{"id":755204,"date":"2018-11-09T10:26:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T15:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=755204"},"modified":"2018-11-09T10:26:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T15:26:41","slug":"asian-elephants-have-maths-skills-similar-to-humans-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=755204","title":{"rendered":"Asian elephants have maths skills similar to humans: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Previous research has shown that many animals have some form of numerical competence, even though they do not use language.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TIMES OF INDIA:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Asian elephants demonstrate numeric ability which is closer to that observed in humans rather than in other animals, according to a study. Researchers at SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies) in Japan found that an Asian elephants&#8217; sense of numbers is not affected by distance, magnitude or ratios of presented numerosities. The finding, published in the Journal of Ethology, provides initial experimental evidence that non-human animals have cognitive characteristics similar to human counting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Previous research has shown that many animals have some form of numerical competence, even though they do not use language&#8230; In the new study, the researchers aimed to replicate the results of previous research that already showed that Asian elephants have exceptional numeric competence&#8230; The programme was specifically designed to examine the cognition of elephants, so that any unintended factors potentially influencing the results could be ruled out&#8217;.<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/home\/science\/asian-elephants-have-maths-skills-similar-to-humans-study\/articleshow\/66322267.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H2gRLCZSBEA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIMES OF INDIA: &#8216;Asian elephants demonstrate numeric ability which is closer to that observed in humans rather than in other animals, according to a study. Researchers at SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies) in Japan found that an Asian elephants&#8217; sense of numbers is not affected by distance, magnitude or ratios of presented numerosities. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":755205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21,24],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-755204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kisnship","category-science","tag-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=755204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755206,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755204\/revisions\/755206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/755205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}