Footage shows an elephant using her trunk to scratch her itchy eye. Julie, the female pachyderm, was spotted rubbing her face inside her enclosure at Chimelong Forest Kingdom in Qingyuan ...

The learning process for an elephant using its trunk looks very similar to a baby learning to use its hands. Baby elephants touch anything from other herd members to their surroundings with trunks.

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Tula-Tu becomes more and more elephant-like every day. Sure, she’s still pretty tiny — for an Asian elephant calf, at least (At just over 1 month old, she now weighs 287 pounds. When she was ...

which are found in creatures like octopuses and snails. But unlike these other animals, an elephant’s trunk is covered in thick, wrinkled skin that adds both protection and versatility.

Prior research has shown that the elephant trunk is a remarkable anatomical structure—made of some 46,000 muscles, it can be bent, turned, twisted and flapped depending on the needs of its owner.

There’s a Sherlock Holmes tale in here somewhere: A clever observer could check wrinkles and whiskers on an elephant trunk to catch a left-trunker pachyderm perp masquerading as a righty ...

flexible trunks instead: mammoths, mastodons, and our modern elephants.What suddenly made long jaws such a liability? Well it looks like we can thank a changing climate for the evolution of the ...

Video footage shows the moment a greedy elephant terrified a group of tourists on safari when it used its trunk to rummage around their Jeep for a snack. Ilona Johansson Jänkänpää, 22 ...