Pang Pha hides her banana-peeling skill from the other elephants at the Berlin Zoo.
cientists at the Humboldt University of Berlinabout Pang Pha’s peeling trick, so the researchers decided to come witness it for themselveshen they fed her fully yellow or green bananas, Pang Pha ate them whole—a normal elephant behavior—being given yellow bananas with brown spots
, she became a peeling machine. With her trunk, she breaks the banana, shakes out the pulp, and then discards the peel.“We discovered a very unique behavior,” said Michael Brecht of the Humboldt University of Berlin in a released by Cell Press. “What makes Pang Pha’s banana peeling so unique is a combination of factors—skillfulness, speed, individuality, and the putatively human origin—rather than a single behavioral element.”Pang Pha appears to haveobserving her caretakers, who raised her by hand and would regularly feed her peeled bananas. But banana-peeling seems to be a rare skill in the elephant world, and no other elephants at the Berlin Zoo have adopted it.
hen eating bananas in a group, she’ll gobble most of them whole, while saving one to peel and eat on her own later. Not only can Pang Pha peel bananas, she does it faster than humans, according to the researchers.Up to 10-core CPU delivers up to 3.7x faster performance to fly through pro workflows quicker than ever.
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