An Asian elephant has been not-so-secretly filmed showering with a water hose at a zoo in Germany, in what scientists described as a “sophisticated behaviour” that shows “remarkable skill”.

it appears that some elephants at the Berlin Zoo in Germany like to use hoses–particularly an Asian elephant named Mary. A video abstract for the 2024 Current Biology paper on elephant water ...

Mary, an Asian elephant at Berlin Zoo, was captured showering herself with a water hose to the shock of scientists. The footage shows Mary methodically washing her body with the hose, using her ...

A wild Asian elephant was rescued from an abandoned water pit in a village in Jinghong, Southwest China's Yunnan Province on September 17, after rescuers used an excavator to free the trapped ...

Elephants were being bred in captivity and the government was committing more land and water to wild elephant herds. Today, while the Asian elephant is still listed as an endangered species ...

Zookeepers at Berlin Zoo were amazed to witness an Asian elephant pranking its friend ... and kinking the hose to disrupt the flow of water. The researchers say they now wonder what the ...

From garbage dumps along forest edges to snack wrappers tossed beside railway tracks, the elephant’s world—like that of many ...

Asian elephant. These two elephant species belong ... According to a recent study, African elephants have wrinkles to retain ...

Many key differences separate African elephant from Asian elephants ... African elephants have wrinkles to retain water and prevent dehydration while traversing the African Savanna.