Don’t know how many stories related to animals and their habits are seen through videos on social media platforms. From which you must have understood that no animal eats fruits by peeling them like humans. Rather swallows them whole. But there is also an animal which likes to peel and eat bananas like humans and if it is not so, it also rejects the fruit. It is none other than an elephant, which is considered one of the most intelligent animals on earth. Whose video is becoming increasingly viral.
A video of such an elephant was shared on YouTube’s channel named Popular Science. Whose style is the most different. In the video going viral, an elephant started peeling bananas and eating it, and its style surprised people. Till now elephants used to eat all the fruits along with the peels. But this elephant named ‘Pang Fa’ is different. The one who first snatches the banana from her trunk eats it only after that.
Have you ever seen an elephant peeling a banana and eating it?
According to the video, there is an elephant living in the Berlin Zoo, who does not like to eat banana peels at all. An elephant named Pang Fa is in headlines because of her style of eating bananas. This elephant is not only interested in eating unpeeled banana. Rather, she is very choosy about the variety of banana as well. She not only chooses the banana according to her choice, but also rejects it on the basis of its colour. This elephant does not like eating too brown or overripe bananas. This is the reason why this absolutely unique style of this elephant is surprising people.
Hathini’s style of eating peeled bananas surprised
Neuroscientist Michael Breck of the Humboldt University of Berlin, who is also a co-author of the research. According to him, he has discovered very unique behavior in elephants. There is no single practical element behind Pang Fa’s peeling of bananas. According to the team of authors, Hathini learned the art of peeling bananas through her caretakers. Who used to feed him by peeling bananas. Seeing this, that elephant also became proficient in it. When this elephant is in a group of elephants, it does not do this. When living in the group, it was seen eating whole bananas like other elephants. While saving one banana. So that later you can peel them and eat them leisurely. Usually no elephant eats bananas after peeling them. Therefore, this unusual behavior surprised the people as well as the researchers.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : April 17, 2023, 16:49 IST
