Not so Dumbo

lare Braden, researcher at John Downer Productions, was involved in. In the August 2003 issue of , she explored the many ways elephants exhibit intelligence, including an example of what “could be construed as non-kinship kindness”. In South Africa, “the matriarch […] opened a gate with her trunk to free a herd of antelope”. It was thought they were after the antelope feed, however, “it became evident that his was not a mission for free food; it appeared the elephants were just releasing the antelope”.