The Smell of a Memory: Elephants Remember the People Who Raised Them | PEP UNLIMITED LLC We’ve all heard the phrase “an elephant never forgets.” It’s one of those sayings that sounds sweet and simple, until science starts showing it might be shockingly true.

The Smell of a Memory: Elephants Remember the People Who Raised Them
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The Smell of a Memory: Elephants Remember the People Who Raised Them | PEP UNLIMITED LLC We’ve all heard the phrase “an elephant never forgets.” It’s one of those sayings that sounds sweet and simple, until science starts showing it might be shockingly true.

The Smell of a Memory: Elephants Remember the People Who Raised Them
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#Elephants #ZooScience #Behavior #ElephantWelfare #WildlifeResearch #Intelligence #Science #Proboscideans #ZooBiology #SerengetiPark #AnimalBond #KeeperConnection #Conservation #Amazing #PepRaise

View of a complete adult mastodon and a juvenile or baby mastodon display facing forward at the La Brea Tar Pits Museum. Other displays are in the background, and various people are milling around them.

Side view of the same two mastodons at the La Brea Tar Pits Museum. In this picture, you can see their full skeletons, and the hint of a camel skeleton posed beside them. A giant ground sloth fossil displayed standing on its hind legs is in the background.

Skull and tusks of Pacific mastodon nicknamed 'Max', displayed on sand in a display case. The glass was removed for research at the time this picture was taken at the Western Science Center in Hemet, CA.

Displays of a Columbian mammoth skeleton and a Pacific mastodon skeleton, with fossils positioned on the body at the Western Science Center.

Mastodons (and a mammoth) at @tarpits.org & Western Science Center, CA. Belated #FossilFriday.

#proboscideans 🦣🐘

Cannot express *how much* I wish I could know how these animals appeared, how they behaved, how they moved, how they interacted w/the world around them.

How marvelous they must have been. #proboscideans

A herd of Palaeoloxodon left trackways in Spain It’s a charming scene to visualize: Little newborn calves, juveniles and a few adults all walking along a coastal area in a herd, the calves walking faster to keep up with everyone else.  Thes…

#FossilFriday
It’s a charming scene to visualize: A herd of little newborn calves, juveniles & a few adults all walking along a coastal area. We know this because their footprints survived over 150,000 years later. #proboscideans

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All kinds of glorious #proboscideans! 🦣🐘 @unlincoln.bsky.social

WOW WOW WOW!! #proboscideans #SouthAmerica

#Deinotheres #proboscideans ♥️ As always, gorgeous artwork by @lacerdajulio.bsky.social!

YES! #deinotheres #proboscideans

Hat #2. I'm a #Quaternary vertebrate #Paleontologist who grooves on big, furry, often extinct mammals. #stableisotopes, #aDNA, #paleoecology, #geochronology, #paleopathology, #CTscanning... w/a particular affinity for #proboscideans and #bison. (but #sloths are totally metal too)

Wrinkles reveal whether elephants are left- or right-trunked, study finds Humboldt University of Berlin research also shows Asian elephants have more wrinkles than African cousins

Wrinkles reveal whether elephants are left- or right-trunked, study finds - Nicola Davis #proboscideans 🐘
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FIGURE 6. Mandible of “Mammut” borsoni from Kaltensundheim (NHMS-MTe 810/1). A: Anterior aspect of the symphysis, note that the rami are slightly distorted (not to scale due to perspective view). B: Left ramus from buccal. C: Right ramus from buccal. D: Occlusal aspect of the dentition and the mandible. Abbreviations: cm - corpus mandibulae, fm - foramen mandibulae, i1 - mandibular tusk, s - symphysis.

FIGURE 2. Excavation sketches of two “Mammut” borsoni individuals from the Kaltensundheim sinkhole. A: The specimen excavated in 1958 is discussed in this paper. Yellow-shaded bones are housed in the NHMS (MTe 810) and are described below. The whereabouts of the other bones is unknown. B: The second individual excavated in 1976-1978 is housed at the SFQW (modified from Kahlke, 1985) and was not available for this study.

2022: A partial skeleton of "Mammut" borsoni (#Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Pliocene of Kaltensundheim (#Germany)

Wighart v. Koenigswald, Jakub Březina, Ralf Werneburg, and Ursula B. Göhlich 🧪⚒️ #proboscideans

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Fig. 4 Juvenile mandible (SNSB-BSPG-2020-XCV-0096) with erupt- ing right and left i2, and right and left dp3–dp4 of Deinotherium levius from Hammerschmiede 5 in dorsal (a), left lateral (b), right lateral (c) and ventral (d) view; occlusal view of the left dp3 and dp4 (e); close-up view of the ventral side of the symphysis showing the emerging i2 (f). Scale bars equal 10 cm in a–d, and 5 cm in e–f

2023: #Deinotherium levius & #Tetralophodon longirostris (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene hominid locality Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, #Germany)...

George E. Konidaris et al 🧪⚒️ #proboscideans

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Prehistoric Elephants Scientifically accurate, articulated models of the Wooly Mammoth, Gompotherium, Moeritherium and Platybelodon, created by the minds at Creative Beast Studio along with Eons!

Eons (PBS) "has teamed up with Creative Beast Studios to put the ancestors of elephants right into your hands, as fully-articulated, detailed and scientifically accurate action figures!" 🧪🦣 #proboscideans #paleontology #palaeontology

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Get Ready for Prehistoric Elephants From Complexly and Creative Beasts Studios - Get Ready for Prehistoric Elephants

Prehistoric elephant-relative action figures! #proboscideans

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A plethora of proboscidean model heads previously featured on view at La Brea Tar Pits & Museum.

When it comes to Tar Pits #proboscideans, they were definitely not “woolly”! Discover the differences between our Mammoths and Mastodons with this "trunk show": bit.ly/TarTrunks

Gomphothere fossils including a partial mandible and a tusk.

What an 'Elephant Graveyard' Teaches Us About Climate Change - Stephenie Livingston
#gomphotheres #proboscideans #Montbrook #paleontology #palaeontology 🧪⚒️

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Shrinking Elephants Once Called Sicily Home (Published 2021) New research suggests that in as little as 40 generations, elephants could have become dwarf size on the island off Italy’s boot.

From 2021: Shrinking Elephants Once Called Sicily Home

New research suggests that in as little as 40 generations, elephants could have become dwarf size on the island off Italy’s boot. #paleontology #palaeontology 🧪⚒️ #proboscideans

www.nytimes.com/2021/07/01/s...

These presentations are now online! #paleontology #palaeontology 🧪⚒️ #proboscideans

youtu.be/_oT_8osgH0A

Question posed about evidence of ancient human/mammoth/proboscidean interaction. Lots to say about this! White Sands National Park is being referenced. #ichnology #proboscideans #humans #sloths 🐾👣 🦣 🐘🦥

Facebook screenshot: Image of fossil proboscidean. Wording: Prehistoric elephants, excavating the evolutionary histories. March 30th. (Starting at 9:30am ET in the US; 6:30pm in India. Presentations by Maghana Srivathsa; Dick Mol; Dr Charalampos Kevrekidis) -- Apologies for any misspellings, the image is a little hard to read!

#FossilFriday #proboscideans
Learned about this from a friend. I believe you can find more on Facebook. March 30th at 9:30am ET (6:30pm in India).

Presentations courtesy of the Friends of Elephants, Wildlife Trust of India, & Gaja Conservation Trust. us06web.zoom.us/j/8673692689...

#paleontology #palaeontology 🧪⚒️ #IndigenousKnowledge #paleoanthropology #mammoths #proboscideans

Estimating tusk masses in proboscideans: a comprehensive analysis and predictive model The size of tusks in proboscideans has numerous implications for their function, biology, ecology, and other aspects of both extant and extinct species. Yet, no prior studies have explored the rela...

Estimating tusk masses in #proboscideans: a comprehensive analysis and predictive model

Asier Larramendi

#paleontology #palaeontology 🧪⚒️

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Original study:

R. F. Williamson et al., New insights into early paleoindian (#Gainey) associations with #proboscideans and #canids in the niagara peninsula, southern ontario, #canada, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 47, 2023,...