A remarkable young elephant has been filmed navigating life in the wild despite missing one of the most important tools an ...

A baby elephant has been rescued from drowning after fishermen saw its trunk poking out of the water. The calf was separated from its herd while trying to cross the Teesta River in West Bengal and was ...

Banana time gets adorable when these two elephants reach across the enclosure together. Both eagerly stretch out their trunks ...

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 ...

Elephants are known for deep calls, strong family bonds, and remarkable memories. But some of their most important conversations may happen without a sound.

Newswise — A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology suggests that an elephant’s muscles aren’t the only way it stretches its trunk — its folded skin also plays an important role. The ...

Newswise — The elephant proboscis (trunk) exhibits an extraordinary kinematic versatility as it can manipulate a single blade of grass but also carry loads up to 270 kilograms. Using motion-capture ...

Elephants, like humans, exhibit a distinct preference for how they use their bodies, particularly when it comes to their trunks. While humans are divided into right-handed and left-handed individuals, ...

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 ...