New on Zoologic: Reassuring Elephants

Asian elephants console others who are in distress with vocalizations and gentle touches, according to a new report published in the journal PeerJ. Anecdotal reports of elephants behaving reassuringly towards each other are common, but this is the first empirical evidence of consolation in elephants.Read the whole story here: A Reassuring Trunk: Evidence of Consolation in Elephants.