We think this might be related to the similarity of trunk and hose,” Michael Brecht, a senior author from Humboldt University ...
A pair of elephants at the Berlin Zoo have figured out how to use a hose as a make-shift flexible shower head. Not only do ...
Elephants at the Berlin Zoo display remarkable tool use: one showers with a hose while another disrupts the water, hinting at ...
Elephants normally wash themselves by using their handy trunks to dip into water and then squirt it on themselves. But not ...
A young elephant managed to get itself stuck between two tree stumps at Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe. But the rescue did not go as smoothly as anticipated.
Elephants have very strong trunks made of thousands of muscles. They can lift heavy objects, pick up small items, and show ...
When a baby elephant, called a calf, is born, it weighs around 200-300 pounds and stands about 3 feet tall. During this ...
The team also observed fellow elephant Anchali, who seemed to interrupt Mary's bath time by trying to stop the water flow ...