On today’s episode: Monkeys and magic! We thought we domesticated elephants, but it turns out they domesticated themselves. All that and more today on All Around Science...

LINKS:

• [ARTICLE] Sleight-of-hand magic trick only fools monkeys with opposable thumbs | University of Cambridge
• [ARTICLE] Mirroring Behavior | Scientific American
• [ARTICLE] Comparison with humans and bonobos suggests wild African elephants may have self-domesticated
• [ARTICLE] Elephants as an animal model for self-domestication

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