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DO ELEPHANTS EVER FORGET? 1
Author(s) -
Markowitz Hal,
Schmidt Michael,
Nadal Leonie,
Squier Leslie
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1901/jaba.1975.8-333
Subject(s) - psychology
Three adult female elephants ( Elephas maximus ) were tested on a light‐dark discrimination problem with an 8‐yr intertrial interval. The first subject took only 6 min to reach criterion and made only two errors, suggesting remarkable retention. The other two subjects were found to have visual anomalies that would have gone undetected without this research.