Sheldrick Wildlife Center Last week in Kenya, a 1-year-old baby elephant meandered through Tsavo East National Park with her ...

An elephant’s trunk serves a lot of important purposes: eating, drinking, and communication are some of the most common uses for trunks. However, trunks are thought to have adapted in response ...

A video of an elephant playing cricket with a group of men in an Indian village has divided opinion online. The footage, which was shared to Twitter on May 8, shows a large elephant holding a ...

If you’ve ever watched an elephant eat and drink, you may think it’s a simple process. The largest land mammals in the world use their long trunks to pick up food — about 400 pounds a day ...

After one of the men lost his footing and fell alongside the road, the elephant slapped him with its trunk and kicked him before ending the chase. It was not clear why the elephant charged or if ...

But in an elephant trunk, there are no bones to pull and no joints to hinge on. The muscles take on that role instead. This makes trunks incredibly flexible so they can move in all directions.

An elephant’s trunk has eight major muscles on either side and 150,000 muscle bundles in all. It is so strong that it can push down trees and lift a whopping 700,000 pounds. Its got the moves ...

First, the African forest elephant, a third species, wasn’t included in the analysis. She says those animals would have provided another point of reference for the development and use of the trunk.

Elephant trunks, more sci-fi face-tentacle than ho-hum mammal nose, are getting new scrutiny as researchers explore how the wrinkles grow. Skip to content. Subscribe or renew today ...