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.

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”.

An Asian elephant named Mary has been secretly filmed displaying "sophisticated behaviour" as she showered herself with a water hose at Berlin Zoo. Experts from Humbolt University of Berlin have ...

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.

Now, researchers at the Berlin Zoo have unveiled another layer of their intelligence: the sophisticated use of water hoses as tools. Mary the elephant, taking a shower. Image credits: Current Biology.

This is a video abstract of the elephant named Mary showering with a water hose for the 2024 Current Biology paper on elephant water hose tool use. Credit: Urban et al./Current Biology She usually ...

Credit: Urban et al./Current Biology Elephants at the Berlin Zoo display remarkable tool use: one showers with a hose while another disrupts the water, hinting at playful social intelligence and ...

While addressing the media, he suggested that if wild elephants cannot drink from the reservoir, let the forest department simply fetch water for them. He also added that forest officials should ...