the researchers noticed “weird asymmetries popping up everywhere, like things were different on the top and the bottom,” Mr. Schulz said. As the elephant trunk elongated, the outward-facing ...

Well, it looks like we can thank a changing climate for the evolution of the elephant’s trunk. Proboscideans first started popping up in Africa during the early Eocene, around 55 million ...

An elephant named "Shanmai," rolled the shoe up with its trunk, rubbed off the mud on it, and held up its trunk over the fence edge to return the shoe to the child who accidentally dropped a shoe ...

Rather like people grabbing a pen with the preferred hand, an individual elephant tends to bend its trunk toward the left or right when curling it to scoop up a fruit or other object of desire.

But you try peeling *** banana with *** trunk which is ... she picks it up and eats it.Brecht said Pang Pha's trick may have influenced her. As a young elephant, she was handraised by a keeper.

The trunk of an African elephant is a remarkable and multi functional ... detecting water sources up to 19.2 km (12 mi.) away. Nostrils are located at the tip of the trunk and function in ...

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.