Why don't elephants ever forget?

Question

thanks

Answer 1

I will never forget you darling,and elephants can forget babe. lol

Answer 2

That's a myth.  No animal has very good memory retention.  If you don't continually retrain a chimp they will forget all those tricks.  Same goes for parrots.  Only constant reinforcement allows them to make the same noise we call parrot speech.

Answer 3

As the others have said, elephants are quite capable of forgetting.  In fact, it takes a LOT of persistance to get an elephant to remember anything at all; however, once you get a concept stuck in an elephant's brain, it DOES seem to recall it pretty well after that.

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_...

I hope that helps.  Good luck!

Answer 4

Actually, they do.  In fact, many of them are quite forgetful!

Answer 5

they do thats just a myth but in fact some of them can remember very well but it started up as a myth to dicourage the  poaching of them.