Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lady Bird the baby elephant is back! She has a new favorite activity: Playing in the hose. In this clip, we get to watch her ...

An elephant at the U.S. National Zoo in Washington, D.C., has been delighting staffers with her musical talents. Shanthi, a 36-year-old Asian elephant, uses her trunk to play a harmonica that is ...

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 ...

Just like kids, animals love to play. Dok Gaew is an adolescent male elephant who lives at the Save Elephant Foundation (SEF) in Thailand. He was rescued in 2017 after he was orphaned shortly after ...

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 ...

There’s a Sherlock Holmes tale in here somewhere: A clever observer could check wrinkles and whiskers on an elephant trunk to catch a left-trunker pachyderm perp masquerading as a righty, thanks to a ...

What is the African elephant? African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth. They are slightly larger than their ...

Lady Bird the baby elephant is back! She has a new favorite activity: Playing in the hose. In this clip, we get to watch her basically laughing as she thoroughly enjoys the spray. After happily waving ...