Zaiya, the successful product or breeding between two of their elephants, is the first baby born at Blackpool Zoo, and she ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — April brings an exciting milestone for the Oregon Zoo's newest resident. Tula-Tu is officially two months old! Zoo officials says the young Asian elephant calf is using her trunk and ...

The Toledo Zoo’s “Junk vs. Trunk” video series is a playful race between Dodge the bear and Kirkja the elephant calf to see ...

The elephant proboscis (trunk) exhibits an extraordinary kinematic versatility as it can manipulate a single blade of grass but also carry loads up to 270 kilograms. Using motion-capture technologies ...

Elephants have an amazing arsenal of face, ear and trunk movements. The trunk consists of far more muscles than the entire human body and can perform both powerful and very delicate movements. A team ...

Baby Elephant Can’t Contain the Love When Giving Her Favorite Human ‘Early Morning Kisses'We have two very exciting words for you: elephant. kisses. Elephant kisses! Baby elephant kisses to be exact.

On a sunny day at Zoo Atlanta in 2020, Kelly the African bush elephant reached for a snack and revealed something strange. High-speed cameras tracking her movements suggested that the skin on top of ...

A new study suggests that an elephant's muscles aren't the only way it stretches its trunk -- its folded skin also plays an important role. The combination of muscle and skin gives the animal the ...