An elephant uses its trunk for eating, drinking water, communicating, exploring the environment, social behaviour, and making and using tools. The trunk, which contains six muscle groups, is not only ...

At the beginning of the sanctuary’s most recent Instagram video, you have to watch closely to spot an elephant’s trunk slowly ...

What a sweetie!

Scientists have decoded the physics behind the different ways in which elephants use their trunks to eat, drink, and carry objects, an advance that could help build new kinds of robots. According to ...

Elephants are the largest land animals, only outsized by giants of the sea such as whales. Their large stature makes them a sight to behold, which is one of the reasons people around the world love ...

A young bull elephant in South Africa appears to have invented a game in which he uses his trunk to fling rocks at safari guides, forcing them to play defense. Elephant flings rock toward safari guide ...

The mechanisms of other animals that humans do not have can be used as ideas for robotics research, such as the mechanism that allows penguins to swim quickly as a clue for constructing water vehicles ...

Elephants are pretty amazing, aren’t they? Aside from their famously impressive memory, the highly social animals can also communicate using a pitch we humans can’t hear. The world’s largest land ...