Pang Pha the elephant, who peels ripe bananas before eating them, may have developed her refined taste for peeled bananas due to a doting caretaker.
featured in the study shows Pha being handed a spotty banana. After taking it with her trunk, the elephant breaks the banana in half. She then peels each half by picking it up again and shaking it until the soft fleshy interior falls out. She then uses her trunk again to grab it and pop it in her mouth, discarding the peel.Researchers were initially stumped by when Pha would choose to peel or not, with weeks going by without her peeling a single banana.
. When a banana is totally brown, she won't bother with it. Video from the study showed that Pha rejected the mostly brown bananas she was given, even throwing one of them back at the experimenter who handed it to her.Pha will also skip peeling in a social setting, when she is competing for the bananas with other elephants that are present, according to the study. In that setting, she will typically eat spotty yellow bananas whole, just like everyone else — except for one.
The study said Pha's main caretaker used to take the extra step of peeling her bananas before feeding them to her, and that she may have "acquired peeling by observational learning from her human caretakers."
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