As far as history goes, elephants have been known as a very intelligent species with incredible brains. They have extraordinary memories, understand human body language and use tools to their advantage (Hullinger). How is it that they have all these human-like traits? Paul Manger, who is currently a Research Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, conducted a research project in 2009 to 2011 at the Colorado College institute. The research team’s main “goal was to explore the shapes and size of neurons in the elephant cortex” (Jacobs). Manger obtained the rights to extract the brains of…