Memory skills and cognitive abilities of elephants

In the article “Elephants Really Never Forget.”, Caitlin O’Connell explores the memorizing skills and cognitive abilities of elephants. She says there’s a possibility that they could do more complex cognition than what they are currently capable of because, in terms of cognitive processing, elephants have the largest temporal lobe which is the part of the cerebral cortex that helps communication, spatial memory, etc. Caitlin O’Connell thinks that there’s a possibility that elephants could do harder and complex cognition than what they can currently do because of the size of their temporal…