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Asian elephants are part of a small group of animals , including primates, bottlenose dolphins and magpies , who demonstrate self-awareness . The study was conducted by the Wildlife Conservation Society ( WCS ) using elephants at the Bronx Zoo in New York City . Although many animals respond to a mirror, very few show evidence that they recognize that the reflection in the mirror are they thereof.The Asian elephants in the study also showed this type of behavior when they stopped in front of a mirror 2.5 by 2.5 meters - they analyzed the rear and brought food to consume near the mirror .
Elephants are able to spend a significant amount of time solving problems . They can change their behavior radically to cope with new challenges , a characteristic of a complex intelligence . A 2010 experiment revealed that in order to reach their food, " elephants can learn to coordinate with a partner in a task requiring two individuals grab simultaneously two ends of the same rope to obtain a reward," placing them in the same level with chimpanzees in terms of cooperative skills .
Elephants show a remarkable ability to use tools with their trunks as if they were arms. It has been observed elephants dig holes in the ground to take water and then start the bark of a tree, chewing shaped ball , plug the hole with it and cover it with sand to prevent evaporation , then returned to the same place to take more water. Often , they also use branches to ward off flies or rascarse.También has seen elephants throwing large stones on electric fences either to destroy or cut the electricidad. has been observed to Asian elephants in India destroy electric fences with logs and remove the wires around with their trunks to create a safe passage through the place .
With a mass of slightly more than 5 kg , the brains of elephants are larger than those of any other land animal , and although the largest whales have mass twenty times greater than those of a typical elephant, the brains of whales they are just two times larger in mass than elephants . In addition , elephants have a total of 257 billion neurons . The brain of elephants is similar to humans in terms of structure and complexity.