It is not just mirrors that elephants can figure out - they can also flush toilets! [OK, jokes aside, click on the link to see what is really happening]
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Darn, if only elephants had two trunks, then they could make tools, start fires, sit around a camp fire and develope language, make plans, make iron, and then fabricate spaceships.
But alas, they're stuck with that one trunk until some like us come around and bioengineers them one... two.
Whales and dolphine have it even worse off on the road to intelligence.