Anchali the elephant was caught using her trunk to try and cut off the water, clamping the hose and putting pressure on the pipe in an attempt to stop her pal from washing. Both animals exhibited ...

Scientists amazed as zoo elephant uses water hose to shower herself - Mary, an Asian elephant at Berlin Zoo, has been dubbed ...

To stay cool, and protect their skin, elephants wallow in mud, bathe in dust and use their trunks to spray themselves with ...

This clever elephant didn’t just figure out how to turn a hose into a shower—she also had to deal with a mischievous friend.

Now, researchers at the Berlin Zoo have unveiled another layer of their intelligence: the sophisticated use of water hoses as ...

Elephants at the Berlin Zoo display remarkable tool use: one showers with a hose while another disrupts the water, hinting at ...

An Asian elephant named Mary has been secretly filmed displaying "sophisticated behaviour" as she showered herself with a water hose at Berlin Zoo. Experts from Humbolt University of Berlin have ...

As an unexpected bonus, researchers say they also have evidence that a fellow elephant knows how to turn the water off, perhaps as a kind of "prank." "Elephants are amazing with hoses," says ...