How do we know an elephant has a long memory?

Answer 1

Elephants live for a long time and they remember where they were born and all the good places to eat. They have also done tests where they know another elephant that they haven't seen since they were small.

Answer 2

I saw a show on discovery or something where these two elephants were in a circus act together and were separated...16 years later they both ended up at the same care facility and remembered each other...they even bent the bars on their stalls trying to touch each other with their trunks.

Answer 3

There was a case a few years ago when a handler was killed by an elephant, apprently, he had done something to upset it some years before, and it was just waiting for the right moment to strike.

basically, if you upset an elephant, you will die or be seriously injured

Answer 4

you design a test, that takes a long time, in which you study the ability of an elephant to remember facts, without reminders over the whole period.

Answer 5

I would guess this thought came about because when elephants retaliate, we don't forget for a LONG time.

Answer 6

well, did you know elephant graves???
in here, you can find bunch of elephants...

its actually their birth place,
they remember their birthplace,
and tried to look for it before they died, called it an instinct...

i guess thats the sole proof of your question.....

Answer 7

By testing reponse to external stmuli at different periods.

Answer 8

Ive forgotten.

Answer 9

Borrow money from one sometime.

Answer 10

to match his long trunk