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 ...

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 ...

When elephants reunite with friends, they greet each other with ear flaps, rumbles and other deliberate sounds and gestures, new research shows. The study, which was published May 9 in the journal ...

An elephant at a German zoo likes to peel her banana with her trunk — a trick so unusual that she's become the subject of a scientific study.You could say researchers "went bananas" over Pang Pha at ...

It’s been a relatively quiet year for the northern elephant seals of Whidbey, but they’ve had many antics in the past. Islanders may recall Elwood got himself stuck in a storm drain and required ...

Last week in Kenya, a 1-year-old baby elephant meandered through Tsavo East National Park with her mother. The sweet pair appeared healthy from a distance, but someone touring the park noticed ...

Real bananas don't peel themselves. People can do it. Orangutans can do it. But you try peeling *** banana with *** trunk which is why researchers went bananas over pang pa at the Berlin Zoo. And how ...