Pang Fa grew up in the zoo and would often eat bananas peeled for him by the keepers. While most elephants eat bananas whole, no matter how ripe, Pang Fa began performing unusual manipulations on over-ripe bananas with brown spots on their yellow peels.
First he breaks the fruit, then he collects the pulp separately with the help of a chest and shakes it. Scientists suggest that Pang Fa probably “borrowed” the way people peeled bananas, but modified it.
Such complex behavior adopted by an animal whose anatomy is different from that of a human is unusual. The researchers will monitor the subsequent behavior of Pang Fa and the other elephants in the group to see if other elephants will also start peeling bananas.
Source: Ferra
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