Do elephants have hair to attract a mate ... Like other parts of their body where there are light amounts of hair, trunk hair ...

The folds on an elephant’s facial appendage aren’t just for show. By Richard Sima The elephant has a secret hiding right on its nose. Its famous trunk, full of muscle and devoid of bone, can ...

Sponsor Message Asian elephants can do some pinching. “But when you give them a big fruit like a melon or a mango,” says Brecht, “they wrap their trunk around the object. So our thinking is ...

Well it looks like we can thank a changing climate for the evolution of the elephant ... But what made a trunk advantageous actually appears to have very little to do with reaching up ...

The boneless appendage is packed with muscles, allowing elephants to do everything from peeling bananas to picking up objects to making trumpeting noises. A single trunk contains around 40,000 ...

An elephant’s trunk is a remarkable organ ... Years later, she figured out how to do it herself. The zookeepers alerted Brecht and his team, who study how elephants are able to control their ...