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At first, the elephant’s banana-peeling patterns ‘appeared random,’ until researchers cracked the code of which bananas she liked best.

At first, the elephant’s banana-peeling patterns ‘appeared random,’ until researchers cracked the code of which bananas she liked best.

At first, the elephant’s banana-peeling patterns ‘appeared random,’ until researchers cracked the code of which bananas she liked best.

At first, the elephant’s banana-peeling patterns ‘appeared random,’ until researchers cracked the code of which bananas she liked best.

At first, the elephant’s banana-peeling patterns ‘appeared random,’ until researchers cracked the code of which bananas she liked best.

At first, the elephant’s banana-peeling patterns ‘appeared random,’ until researchers cracked the code of which bananas she liked best.

At first, the elephant’s banana-peeling patterns ‘appeared random,’ until researchers cracked the code of which bananas she liked best.

At first, the elephant’s banana-peeling patterns ‘appeared random,’ until researchers cracked the code of which bananas she liked best.

Elephants like to eat bananas, but they don't usually peel them first in the way humans do. A new report published in the journal Current Biology on April 10, however, shows that one very special Asian elephant named Pang Pha picked up banana peeling all on her own while living at the Berlin Zoo

The elephant only peels yellow-brown bananas when alone, and can do so faster than humans.