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Published online 23 March 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050321-12

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Elephants do impressions

Mimicry of trucks and zoo-mates shows range of vocal repertoire.

They say that elephants never forget. Now the creatures have shown that, when it comes to the fine art of vocal mimicry, they're not averse to learning new tricks either.

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