I don’t think the novelty of the research is the fact that elephants have personalities, but instead the study of the personalities themselves and how they deve

I don’t think the novelty of the research is the fact that elephants have personalities, but instead the study of the personalities themselves and how they develop and are influenced by the environment and the species. If people stopped researching after determining that “yes, in fact, other animals have personalities too”, that would be pretty boring.