An elephant’s trunk can haul a felled log across a clearing and, moments later, ...

An elephant's trunk is both strong and capable of extremely fine motor movements. With this muscular, boneless structure, an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Looks like someone is growing up! A video of baby elephant learning how to use her trunk is the absolute cutest. She’s just ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image via Shutterstock/Jeremy Richards (Image via Shutterstock/Jeremy Richards) Just like human babies and toddlers, young ...

Elephants use their trunks for a long list of reasons: eating, drinking, smelling, socializing. But trunks have about 40,000 individual muscles — and babies have to learn to use them. “Watching baby ...

Elephants' wrinkly trunks might serve a purpose and reveal whether the individual prefers to bend the handy appendage to the right or the left. Byrdyak via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Until ...

Just like human babies and toddlers, young animals learn by watching those around them. If you’ve ever seen a baby try to stand on wobbly legs or figure out how to hold a spoon, you know how much ...