Humans and animals can seem so different, but a baby elephant displaying a familiar childlike behavior at England’s Blackpool ...

Elephants are super sweet creatures, with herds often led by an older female matriarch, and many female elephants help raise ...

Lerumo is fully healed and living at the Elephant Haven Wildlife Foundation's rescue after getting shot in the trunk by a farmer in Botswana several months ago Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at ...

One of the most recognizable features of an elephant is its trunk – the long appendage that extends out from the animal’s face. Elephants use it for a variety of activities, including drinking, eating ...

On a sunny day at Zoo Atlanta in 2020, Kelly the African bush elephant reached for a snack and revealed something strange. High-speed cameras tracking her movements suggested that the skin on top of ...

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. This all ...

Elephant trunks may be one of the most sensitive body parts in the animal kingdom. Michael Brecht at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin and his colleagues dissected the ...

New research finds that elephants dilate their nostrils in order to create more space in their trunks, allowing them to store up to nine liters of water. They can also suck up three liters per second ...