Elephants offer a reassuring touch in stressful times
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Asian elephants offer each other comfort in times of distress with trunk touches to the head and elsewhere, a new study finds.
Elise Gilchrist; J.M. Plotnik and Frans B.M. de Waal/PeerJ 2014
Asian elephants offer each other comfort in times of distress with trunk touches to the head and elsewhere, a new study finds.
Elise Gilchrist; J.M. Plotnik and Frans B.M. de Waal/PeerJ 2014