When elephants traverse deep rivers, for example, they curve their trunk into a snorkel, and when bathing, they can use it as a hose, or more like a fire hose. With one suck, a trunk can pull in ...

Nostrils are located at the tip of the trunk and function in breathing, smelling. It is believed that elephants have the ...

the African forest elephant, a third species, wasn’t included in the analysis. She says those animals would have provided another point of reference for the development and use of the trunk.

There’s nothing much cuter than watching an elephant calf learning, and failing to use the thousands of muscles in the trunk. The elephant’s trunk is one magnificent multi-tool. As well as ...

The next time you head to the zoo and see an elephant, look closely at its trunk, you might be able to tell if it's a "lefty" or a "righty" based on its whiskers and wrinkles. A study published in ...

An Asian elephant named Mary living at the Berlin Zoo surprised researchers by figuring out how to use a hose to take her ...

Drunk Elephant says this cleanser is designed to leave skin feeling clean and soft, never stripped. And that's precisely what ...

She typically uses her trunk to grasp the hose behind ... [Related: Female sea otters use tools more than males.] “Do elephants play tricks on each other in the wild?” Brecht asked.

For this feat, Anchali places her trunk on the hose and then ... The findings come as a reminder of elephants' extraordinary manipulative skill and tool use, made possible by the grasping ability ...

Elephants in the Berlin Zoo were captured on video using a sophisticated tool — a hose — to take a shower and prank each other.