To land on their finding, the scientists first tested the slipperiness, or friction, of a banana peel on a linoleum plate (to mimic how much a shoe on the fruit would slide on a typical floor ...

BOSTON — We’ve all seen the cartoons. Bugs Bunny wolfs down a banana and casually tosses the skin onto the floor. Moments later, Elmer Fudd comes racing in, steps on the banana peel and goes ...

An Asian elephant at the Berlin Zoo, Pang Pha, taught herself to peel bananas with ... I gave her a [brown banana] and she basically dropped it and left it on the floor,” said Kaufmann.