{"id":323,"date":"2011-03-09T10:19:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T15:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2013-04-01T18:37:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T22:37:22","slug":"cooperative-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"Cooperative Elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019ve written about Angry Elephants<\/a> venting their frustrations on vans rather than people. Now I\u2019d like to show you that elephants also can cooperate with each other at a high level. I think it is interesting that, without language skills, these elephants seem to know when to:<\/p>\n

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  1. wait for help,<\/li>\n
  2. find creative ways to accomplish a task, and<\/li>\n
  3. when not to try.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Just think what they could do if they could talk!<\/p>\n

    The following was reported at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America<\/a>, published on March 7, 2011.<\/p>\n

    Enjoy.<\/p>\n

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    I\u2019ve written about Angry Elephants venting their frustrations on vans rather than people. Now I\u2019d like to show you that elephants also can cooperate with each other at a high level. I think it is interesting that, without language skills, these elephants seem to know when to: wait for help, find creative ways to accomplish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teamwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}