Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elephants are known for their intelligence and social complexity, and recent observations show they might even engage in playful ...

This elephant’s behavior is adorable, and it’s also very typical. Baby elephants are known to suck on their trunks for a variety of reasons. The most common reason is comfort while they learn to use ...

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 ...

Elephants are famous for their dexterous trunks, which the animals use to eat, drink, trumpet and breathe. If you take a close look at the iconic appendage—an elongated nose and upper lip—you’ll see ...

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 ...