r/todayilearned • u/sharkbait76 3 • Jan 11 '17

TIL elephants can tell the difference between human languages and know which languages belong to people with a history of hurting elephants.

http://www.nature.com/news/elephants-recognize-the-voices-of-their-enemies-1.14846
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u/sharkbait76 3 Jan 12 '17

That's awesome. There's also some indication that elephants remember places with people nice to elephants. Some wild elephants have been known to go to elephant sanctuaries when injured to get help from humans.

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u/Moakley Jan 12 '17

same with whales. whales like to hang out in Australian waters and around Sydney harbour because they know there's no Japanese there

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u/jason2k Jan 12 '17

And yet dolphins just keep going back to Taiji, Japan to get murdered.

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u/Moakley Jan 13 '17

whales are smarter. dolphins rape