When we think of animals using tools, animals like chimpanzees might come to mind. But some of the tools elephants use would surprise you.

The elephant, called Anchali, sabotaged her friend Mary's shower by lifting and kinking the hose to disrupt the flow of water. The researchers say they now wonder what the findings in zoo ...

The elephant, named Mary, was filmed using her trunk to spray herself with water, methodically lifting her legs and adjusting the hose to clean herself, a skill never before observed in elephants.

A pair of elephants at the Berlin Zoo have figured out how to use a hose as a make-shift flexible shower head. Not only do they use the water to get clean, but they have been observed turning the ...

As an unexpected bonus, researchers say they also have evidence that a fellow elephant knows how to turn the water off, perhaps as a kind of “prank.” “Elephants are amazing with hoses ...

In the Berlin Zoo, Mary demonstrated another example of clever elephantine tool use while another animal exhibited a form of mischief with a hose that resembled a prank. By Emily Anthes Emily ...

Elephants prank each other with harmless acts of sabotage, scientists have discovered, after two of the animals were caught playing with a water hose. The mammals are well-known for their ability ...

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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”.

Mary, an Asian elephant at Berlin Zoo, has been dubbed ‘the queen of showering’. Screen grab of Mary showering with a water hose at Berlin Zoo (Urban et al/Current Biology/PA) Nilima Marshall5 ...