We all have heard how elephants do not forget!
Then again I used to think that it was just a myth! Apparently it is not!
Size does matter! When it comes to brain power that is!
So it has been found that elephants do have an exceptional memory.
Their large brains and gigantic hippocampus—the brain region responsible for emotion and memory—allow them to retain vital spatial, social, and survival information for decades!
So do you know how Elephants Use Their Memory?
One of the methods is Spatial tracking where the older matriarchs remember the exact locations of distant water holes, food sources, and safe migration pathways during severe droughts!
So being old is equivalent to experience!
Then you have the basic Social recognition in that they can track and recognize the calls, voices, or scents of hundreds of individual elephants and human friends or threats after many years apart!
Another amazing thing is that knowledge can even be passed! So you have Generational knowledge in which Herds pass down ancestral paths, danger zones, and coping strategies from generation to generation!
Finally nothing unites species like Grief! And sad memories are actually more strong! So even Elephants show prolonged signs of mourning, revisiting and touching the bones of lost family members years later!
So try not to irritate any elephant! He or she may remember!
Similarly hope many remember that Vyjayanthimala Bali is not only an accomplished actress but also a parliamentarian!
I should also not forget that this she one of the few ladies I can sketch without getting any stares from my kids!
Now don’t forget to switch off your lights before you sleep!
Shub ratri!
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