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.

Trunk whiskers on the opposite ... With a mix of flexibility and power, an elephant can peel a banana or pick up a tortilla chip without breaking it, though not the way human fingers would ...

and sensitive enough to perform delicate tasks like picking up a single tortilla chip without breaking it. Now a team of researchers in Berlin have documented an elephant using her trunk for ...

An elephant calf, without trunk, was spotted by local people in Athirapally forest range in Thrissur Kerala district. They came across the baby elephant, moving around with a jumbo herd ...

“The trunk of the elephant has been studied a lot,” she says, “because we try to understand how we can create things that are strong without any hard support.” Lafeuvre says understanding ...