Erin asked me the origin of this saying again. i figured that i should just take notes down here.
According to Dr. Jenkins’ writing,
The origin of the phrase seems to go back to observations that elephants follow the same paths and even hand down genetic memories of directions and places grounds across generations. Each elephant clan has a certain burial place, like many human communities, and always help the dying ones get back there if they are not killed traumatically first.
also, from The Straight Dope, there’s this entry on “Is it true an elephant never forgets?” they said that there’s was an experiment done by a German researcher back in 1957.
—–
EXCERPT BODY:
elephant-never-forgets