Like humans … elephants can “nominate” to determine their requests sciences

A research team led by scientists from the University of Vienna in Austria was able to prove that elephants use gestures with a clear goal, which is to deliver their requests, such as the desire to apple, just as humans do.

In their experiments, the researchers presented a tray (a bowl to carry foods) with apples (6 apples) and another empty, to 17 villas in Zimbabwe, and they recorded elephants’ responses in 3 cases: when you get all the apples, when their desire is never met, and when only one apple is given.

Deliberate gestures

According to the study, which was published by the team in the Royal Society Oben patrol, the elephants only made gestures towards a person visually or visually or towards the Chinese that contains food, and no random movement appeared towards other things, which means that the gestures are deliberate.

And when its desire was not fulfilled, the elephants did not repeat the same gesture, but rather invented new movements to draw attention, even if it got only part of the food, it continued to gesture to confirm its entire desire.

According to the study, the researchers monitored 38 different types of gestures across 313 gestures from 17 villas, which indicates the complexity and diversity of their body language.

Based on these results, the researchers note that the elephants possess the feature of scientists that it was previously exclusive in the majority, which is “the first degree intention”, which means
That the organism (a person or animal) has an idea, belief or desire towards something in the outside world.

First degree intent

This means that the organism does a certain action and is aware that he wants to change the behavior of the other party to achieve a specific goal, that is, the act is not random or instinctive reaction, but rather carries a conscious intention towards another person or an object.

For example, if you refer to your friend to a cup of water while you are thirsty, then you do not move for no reason, but to make him understand that you want water and want to offer it to you. This is a gesture with a first degree intention, and when a monkey looks at a banana on the tree because it wants to eat it, this is also a first -class intention, because it represents a desire for bananas.

This case is called “intention of first degree” because it expresses only one idea towards an external thing, and does not relate to the ideas or intentions of others, and if the object thinks: “I think the other monkey wants banana”, then this is called “second -class intention.”

The presence of the first degree intention of the elephants means that its brains are able to plan the action and realize the other side as an interactive listener, this appeared through a clear behavior that includes the trend towards the audience of notice, and the continuation of gesture until the desire is achieved, and the use of different gestures in the event of some of them failing.