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Elephants (and bats) might never forget

A frog-eating bat.
A frog-eating bat. Photo: Marcos Guerra

Plenty of other living things besides humans have memory too, though scientists are still scratching the surface of animal memory.

And while elephants are well-known for their ability to recollect, bats seem to be up there, too. In a 2022 study, scientists taught a group of wild frog-eating bats to associate a specific ring tone with food. Four years later, they returned and found that the bats still remembered that ring tone.