Elephants may not be such dumbos after all when it comes to solving problems by sudden insight.
ANIMAL SMARTS A least one resident of Washington, D.C., has passed a test for insightful problem solving. A young elephant at the National Zoo figured out that he could stand on a cube to snag out-of-reach fruit.
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