Humans and elephants have a surprising number of traits in common. These animals are highly intelligent and emotional, feeling many of the same emotions as we do. They’re among the world’s most ...

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 ...

Training allows staff to evaluate the elephants’ health and well-being. “She’s learning to touch the tip of her trunk to our hand and we’ll put food into her trunk instead of into her mouth,” ...

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 ...

Tula-Tu becomes more and more elephant-like every day. Sure, she’s still pretty tiny — for an Asian elephant calf, at least (At just over 1 month old, she now weighs 287 pounds. When she was born, she ...

There’s a Sherlock Holmes tale in here somewhere: A clever observer could check wrinkles and whiskers on an elephant trunk to catch a left-trunker pachyderm perp masquerading as a righty, thanks to a ...

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 ...