![]() ![]() An elephant character, for instance, may quickly read their way through a textbook and thereafter recollect the correct answer to every question therein. In fiction, this tends to get exaggerated into elephants having picture-perfect eidetic memory, recalling with perfect clarity trivial events that happened many years or decades earlier. This is also a matter of concern for zookeepers, as elephants will very much remember an individual human who mistreated them and are very likely to get back at them, sometimes fatally, potentially quite a long way down the road. ![]() This is, to a degree, Truth in Television - elephants are very intelligent animals with long lives and good long-term memory, archetypally represented in the old matriarch who knows where to find water and food for her family during the lean times, even if she only visited that location once in her youth. Elephants have a reputation in fiction for possessing excellent memories. ![]()
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