Most noises produced by the elephant for communicating with its herd are too low for the human ear to detect. So how does the ...

The trunk of an elephant is among the versatile appendages in the animal kingdom. Now a research team has shown that most of ...

That is, until they were all rapidly replaced with proboscideans with long, flexible trunks instead: mammoths, mastodons, and our modern elephants.What suddenly made long jaws such a liability? Well ...

Well, elephants wouldn't be that impressed. They do it on the daily, thanks to what's inside their trunk. If you were to dissect an elephant trunk, it would actually look more like the inside of ...

The elephants trunk is their nose, it's extra long and has many purposes such as: drinking, reaching for food, breathing, and they even use it as snorkel when swimming. There are three species of ...

The calf was found by villagers in the town of Aceh Jaya A baby Sumatran elephant has died after losing half its trunk to a trap set by poachers in Indonesia. The critically endangered one-year ...

sold for £4,000 An auction of town centre elephant sculptures has raised £231,500 for a hospice charity. The 38 artworks had been part of the outdoor Big Trunk Trail in Luton to showcase the "up ...

Young elephants are raised within a matriarchal family of doting ... They express a range of emotions using their trunk, ears, head, and tail. When they need to communicate over longer distances ...

Reid Park Zoo's 6-month-old elephant calf Meru reached a big milestone: she got into the grown-up pool, which goes as deep as ...

The forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is one of two living African elephant species, the other being the savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana). Historically, forest elephants thrived in the dense ...

The renowned Elephant Trunk Hill, for one, has become the symbol of the city itself where hundreds of local tourists flock to see the popular emblem of the city. Legend has it that the Elephant ...