Implicit meaning in the form of social and emotional relationship is very commonly communicated. Elephants often effect human behavior through gesture and vocals. Communication becomes comprehensible through the narrowness of the work context. The geography and content of elephant cognitive maps are revealed through comprehension of elephant symbolic communication. Trunk dexterity is more than adequate to produce simple realistic drawings.
Elephants sometimes make marks in the dirt while standing in groups and vocalizing.
Elephant brains are several times larger than human brains, with many timesthe cortical area available for higher mental function. Elephants have complexvocal communicaton, behave altruistically toward kin group members androutinely solve difficult problems involving child care, rescue , defense, malecombat, matriarchal social relations, finding food and water, location of estrousfemales etc. Cognition often expresses clearly in planned behavior. Elephants or humansin a problem situation require symbolic knowledge of the environment. The brain must encode and decode environmental information to motivate insightful behavior.