Why is the elephant trunk so wrinkly? It sounds like the start of one of Aesop’s fables. But in a new study in the journal Royal Society Open Science, researchers offer up some answers.

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 ...

Reaching between 10 and 13 feet tall and weighing between 2 and 8 tons ... On average, the trunk of an African elephant can reach up to 7 feet. Asian elephant’s trunks can reach lengths of ...

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.

The world’s largest land mammals’ trunks can hold up to eight litres of water and ... adding that “a wrinkle on the elephant trunk allows the trunk to stretch while maintaining protection.” ...

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.

A wild Asian elephant in Sri Lanka Amanda Perez / Smithsonian's National Zoo via Flickr under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Like humans, elephants love to munch on bananas. But unlike us, most elephants simply ...

Participants must sign up on the zoo’s website ... Batu, 5, and Ajay, 2, died from the elephant herpes virus in 2020. Another young elephant, Preya, died at 3 in 2003. Yoga check-in begins ...