A crowd at the zoo cheers on an elephant as it rescues a drowning gazelle with its trunk in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

“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 ...

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 ...

Video footage from Nakhon Ratchasima in northeast Thailand shows the elephant, Plai Biang Lek, using his trunk to help himself to some snacks.

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 ...

The elephant then charged at Pritam and lifted him up with its trunk, Kumar said ... The survey team had gotten close to the herd without notifying forest authorities, Nazir Akthar, a Barhi ...

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.