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Elephants remember zookeepers after many years

• bell-cot 2y ago
  My understanding (from a young Indian acquaintance) is that it's routine for an old village elephant to remember a person who had moved away from the village decades earlier. Are any HN'ers more familiar with this?
• fuzzfactor 2y ago
  Somewhere in the Paul Harvey archives[0] there should be the episode where he closed with the account of an elephant that had been in the US for a number of years, but eventually had become despondent and it was the regular trainers who could tell the difference. One day there was a visitor from India who spoke to the elephant in their native language and that was what the elephant had been longing for. [0] "The Rest of the Story" https://trotsarchive.com/ https://trotsarchive.com/