An Asian elephant named Mary living at the Berlin Zoo surprised researchers by figuring out how to use a hose to take her ...

Elephants are the world’s largest land animals. There are lots of different kinds. There’s the African Forest elephant, the African Savannah elephant and the Asian elephant. You can tell them ...

“Elephants are amazing with hoses,” says Michael Brecht of the Humboldt University of Berlin. Also, the elephant “Mary is the ...

Wrinkles on an elephant’s trunk help it perform feats of tremendous flexibility and dexterity rivaled only by the human hand.