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wtg
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Watch an elephant peel a banana with her trunk in incredible first–of-its-kind footage

An Asian elephant at the Berlin Zoo, Pang Pha, taught herself to peel bananas with her trunk by watching her keepers.


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I loved how the elephant treated the bananas differently depending on the degree of ripeness.

Animals are scary smart...


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The embedded video does not play for me, so I found this other video on YouTube (with zoom in and slow mo too):

https://youtu.be/Tr_Ed-6eHxA

Neat stuff.


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