The learning process for an elephant using its trunk looks very similar to a baby learning to use its hands. Baby elephants touch anything from other herd members to their surroundings with trunks.

Filmed at Yala National Park in Sri Lanka, the massive animal used its trunk to reach inside the vehicle, causing panic among the passengers. The video shows the elephant almost toppling the car ...

our bicep pulls on our forearm bones and that causes them to swing up around our elbow joint. But in an elephant trunk, there are no bones to pull and no joints to hinge on. The muscles take on ...

On average, the trunk of an African elephant can reach up to 7 feet. Asian elephant’s trunks can reach lengths of up to 6 feet. Elephants can lift 4.5% of their weight using their trunk.

Raja, is a famous Sri Lankan elephant that is notoriously known as the elephant that collect road tax or toll from vehicles passing by busy roads.

She used her trunk instead ... sucking the water up and then spraying it on themselves. But not Mary, an Asian elephant who has been dubbed Berlin Zoo’s “queen of showering”.

One of the youngest, biggest residents at the St. Louis Zoo is preparing to make his public debut — but first, he has to ...