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Do elephants have instinctive understanding of human gesture?

As It Happens

October 14, 2013

Season 2013, Episode 300141631

07:07

A study by University of Saint Andrews researchers on African Elephants has demonstrated they could very well have an innate ability to understand human gestures, including pointing, which is considered one of our fundamental forms of communicating. El

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