They use their nose like we use our eyes ... If you were to dissect an elephant trunk, it would actually look more like the inside of your tongue than your nose. Trunks, tongues, and even octopus ...

A friendly baby elephant played with a Japanese tourist, kissing her on the cheek with her trunk. Footage shows four-year-old ...

A gung-ho tourist has been slapped with a fine after dangerously cosying up to a wild elephant in Khao Yai National Park.

On average, the trunk of an African elephant can reach up to 7 feet. Asian elephant’s trunks can reach lengths of up to 6 feet. Elephants can lift 4.5% of their weight using their trunk.

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.

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 ...

The saying “an elephant never forgets” has truth—elephants have excellent long-term memory. They live in matriarchal herds ...

The combination of motion capture experiments and medical imaging reveals how an elephant controls the movements of its trunk ... institutions or for the use of any information through the ...

A viral video shows a rescued baby elephant in Thailand learning to blow out a birthday candle with the help of its caregiver ...

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 ...