When the elephant suddenly tired of it, it grabbed the woman with its trunk and threw her to the ground with a big swing. She broke her leg; a second person was injured. The Indian branch of ...

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 learning process for an elephant using its trunk looks very similar to a baby learning to use its hands. Baby elephants touch anything from other herd members to their surroundings with trunks.

Tula-Tu becomes more and more elephant-like every day. Sure, she’s still pretty tiny — for an Asian elephant calf, at least (At just over 1 month old, she now weighs 287 pounds. When she was ...

Nandi the baby elephant started life with a spaghetti noodle of a nose, but her mom is teaching the calf that her trunk can be so much more Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...