The world’s largest land mammals’ trunks can hold up to eight litres of water and ... adding that “a wrinkle on the elephant trunk allows the trunk to stretch while maintaining protection.” ...

A right-trunked elephant is more likely to curl its trunk to the right to pick things up, while a left-trunked elephant would prefer to bend it the other way. In the study, the groups of elephants ...

Until recently, scientists believed that wrinkles on the trunks of elephants simply formed over time, like the wrinkles on human faces. But after a team of experts noticed that even calves have ...

In the video below, you can watch as the elephant breaks off the top of a banana with her trunk and tosses it on the ground. When she picks it up again, the fruit falls away from the loose peel ...

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 ...

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.