Elephants Have Empathy
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Proportionally, elephants have the largest brain of any other land animals, with the cortex having as many neurons as a human brain. The size and complexity of their brains allow them to experience a wide range of emotions ranging from empathy to joy and playfulness. Elephants also have an incredible memory and can even recognize themselves when looking in a mirror. It has also been discovered that elephants mourn their dead, can use tools to accomplish tasks, and learn new behaviors.
They’re the only other animal besides humans that pay their respects to the dead. Recently deceased elephants receive a burial ceremony, and the carcass will be revisited even if it has been reduced to a skeleton.
You may not remember a specific crow, but it remembers you.
