File:Elephant and small animals 3.jpg

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English: From an experiment in a German zoo. When an elephant sees a toy dog, it attacks with lifted trunk (image 1), but when it sees a hedgehog, it looks twice and flees in panic (image 2). When it sees a guniea pig, it moves evasively toward its hovel (image 3). When a hedgehog attrap is dragged by a string through the corral, the elephant becomes afraid, puts the trunk over the eye and doesn't dare to look (image 4).
The scientists have an explanation: elephants are afraid of everything that moves without their understanding how it works. The legs of mice are only 13 mm, those of guinea pigs and hedgehogs 30mm. The elephants can't see them. Thus, their moves become incomprehensible. But the legs of the toy dog were 45 mm, so it was quickly destroyed.
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