{"id":2002,"date":"2026-09-13T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/index.php\/briefing\/2026-09-13-elephant-impulse-control-en\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:00:00","slug":"2026-09-13-elephant-impulse-control-en","status":"publish","type":"briefing","link":"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/index.php\/briefing\/2026-09-13-elephant-impulse-control-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixteen Asian elephants could stop an impulsive reach for visible food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2026-09-13 01:00 KST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sixteen Asian elephants detoured around a transparent barrier and switched away from a previously successful method when rules changed.<\/p>\n<p>Success varied and the sample was small; the study does not show elephants always act rationally in the wild.<\/p>\n<h2>Tasks<\/h2>\n<p>One task required a side route around visible food; another required abandoning an old solution.<\/p>\n<h2>Result<\/h2>\n<p>Most animals suppressed an immediate reach or repeated strategy, evidence of inhibitory control.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/elephant-impulse-control-en.png\" alt=\"Sixteen Asian elephants could stop an impulsive reach for visible food\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption class=\"op-briefing-image-caption\">This AI-generated image explains the topic; it is not a photograph of the actual site, experiment, animal or fossil.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Variation<\/h2>\n<p>Performance differed by individual and task, suggesting control is context-dependent rather than one score.<\/p>\n<h2>Limits<\/h2>\n<p>All animals lived at one institute and were familiar with people and apparatus. Cross-species rankings need matched tests.<\/p>\n<h2>Next<\/h2>\n<p>Multi-site and more naturalistic sensory tasks could test generality and inform individualized welfare training.<\/p>\n<h2>Primary source and independent checks<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0340452\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PLOS ONE \uc6d0 \ub17c\ubb38<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1142421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PLOS \uc5f0\uad6c \ubc1c\ud45c\u00b7\ub3c5\ub9bd \ud3b8\uc9d1 \ud655\uc778<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Read in other languages<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/index.php\/briefing\/2026-09-13-elephant-impulse-control-ko\/\">\ud55c\uad6d\uc5b4<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/index.php\/briefing\/2026-09-13-elephant-impulse-control-en\/\">English<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/index.php\/briefing\/2026-09-13-elephant-impulse-control-es\/\">Espa\u00f1ol<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/index.php\/briefing\/2026-09-13-elephant-impulse-control-ja\/\">\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/index.php\/briefing\/2026-09-13-elephant-impulse-control-vi\/\">Ti\u1ebfng Vi\u1ec7t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elephants in Thailand inhibited direct reaching and an obsolete strategy. This captive sample does not rank the intelligence of an entire species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-2002","briefing","type-briefing","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/briefing\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/briefing"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/briefing"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onepress.co.kr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}