The trunk of an African elephant is a remarkable and multi functional ... detecting water sources up to 19.2 km (12 mi.) away ...

People have reported that African elephants avoid land ... bones and that causes them to swing up around our elbow joint. But in an elephant trunk, there are no bones to pull and no joints to ...

The African elephant is the largest land mammal, growing up to 13ft (4m ... The elephant’s trunk is one magnificent multi-tool. The female elephants herd together with juvenile bulls and ...

African forest elephants feed on leaves, grasses, seeds, fruit, roots and tree bark. They open up pathways through the underbrush providing access to food for other species. Over several years some of ...

Earlier this week, the Wichita, Kansas-based destination announced in a post on Facebook that four of its elephants are currently pregnant. "We're announcing some trunk ... sign up for PEOPLE's ...

When I read the email from the Oakland Zoo last month saying it had retired its single remaining African ... trunk, effortlessly untied my shoelaces. We quickly learned if he extended his trunk up ...

The elephants trunk is their nose ... There are three species of elephants, two are native to Africa and one is native to Asia. In the wild they live where it is very sunny and hot.

Africa is an exceptionally ... can be interpreted as an elephant's head, while the stretch of land along the coast moving south towards Djibouti resembles the trunk. This is not the only African ...

We've been told: "It's elephant central up there, you'll see plenty of them ... mean there are now fewer than half a million left in Africa - and roughly a third of them are in Botswana.

The largest land mammal on Earth, elephants embody the African landscape. Using seasonal cues and their long-term memories, these hulking creatures travel vast distances in close-knit herds to find ...