As It Happens6:16This fussy elephant peels her bananas, but only when they’re perfectly ripe
Pang Pha is very particular about her bananas.
Like most of us, the Asian elephant at the Berlin Zoo prefers her bananas to be the perfect level of bright yellow ripeness. And she also likes them peeled.
In fact, she peels them herself, using her trunk.
“It’s a rare, very specific behaviour,” Lena Kaufmann, a biology PhD candidate at Humboldt University in Berlin, told As It Happens host Nil Köksal. “In the zoo in Berlin, no other elephants do it.”
Kaufmann is the first author on a paper about Pang Pha’s
