The post Baby Elephant Gets the Sweetest Trunk Hug from Its Sister appeared first on A-Z Animals. Elephants are super sweet creatures, with herds often led by an older female matriarch, and many ...

Elephants are fascinating animals, and their trunks are even more impressive once you realize everything they can do. This long, flexible combination of nose and upper lip has over 40,000 muscles ...

You might be surprised to learn that a baby elephant doesn’t instinctively know how to use its trunk. When they are born, they lack muscle tone in their trunks, which makes them difficult to control, ...

It turns out that pachyderms pack quite a bit of sensory power in their trunks! Here's how elephants use their whiskers to ...

Understanding how elephants use their trunks to pick up small objects could lead to robots designed with flexible hands or grippers, according to a new study that includes Rochester Institute of ...

Many human inventions are based on things found in nature. Velcro was inspired by the burrs a Swiss engineer found on himself and his dog, airplane wings by birds in flight. A new study of elephant ...

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Juana Summers. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: I'm Scott Detrow, and I am joined by Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's science podcast Short Wave for our ...

Elephants are super sweet creatures, with herds often led by an older female matriarch, and many female elephants help raise the calves together. These close-knit animals are social and also like to ...