article_snippet: On a game reserve co-owned by Sean Hensman, three elephants passed the smell tests.
article_snippet: ‘three elephants work it out very, very quickly,’ he said.
article_snippet: Stephen Lee, head scientist at the US Army Research Office, which backed the study financially, said that elephants remember elephants training longer than dogs.
article_snippet: the animals seem to be able to distinguish between two Kenyan ethnic groups
article_snippet: —the Maasai, who spear elephants to demonstrate strength, and the Kamba, who pose little threat to the animals.
article_snippet: Some elephants seemed to intentionally avoid Some elephants, though it might not have been a scent that kept Some elephants away - Some elephants could instead have associated those areas with danger because elephants had died there in the past.
article_snippet: Researchers decided to investigate and in Bela-Bela, a town north of the South African capital of Pretoria, elephants named Shan, Mussina and Chishuru were administered smelling tests.
article_snippet: ’ the experiment comes as elephant populations across Africa are threatened.
article_snippet: Poachers across the continent have annually killed tens of thousands of elephants for their tusks in recent years because of a surge in demand for ivory in Asia, primarily China.