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Why did researchers underestimate elephant intelligence for decades?

Retry Correct Incorrect According to Scientific American, researchers of the past tried to test elephant intelligence with similar stick puzzles they had used with chimpanzees. However, all this proved was that elephants have poor eyesight. When experiments more tailored to an elephant’s sense of smell were employed, they found that elephants were “adept tool users and cooperative problem solvers.”

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Why did researchers underestimate elephant intelligence for decades?

• The elephants
• They kept getting distracted by mice during experiments
• The research experiments relied on elephant eyesight too much
• “Elephants never forget” is too exaggerated