Elephants are fascinating animals, and their trunks are even more impressive once you realize everything they can do. This long, flexible combination of nose and upper lip has over 40,000 muscles ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The list of feats Andrew Schulz has witnessed an elephant perform with its trunk is as long as, well, an elephant’s trunk. These ...

Elephants use their trunks much like a human uses their hands: to pick up food and manipulate objects. A new study finds that tiny, specialized whiskers on elephant trunks help them do it. Many human ...

If I could have any pet in the world, I would have an elephant. Well, several, because they like to be together, but I would have elephants. Ever since I was a child, I've loved them way too much.

An elephant has about 1,000 whiskers on its trunk. Basile Morin via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-4.0 Elephants are famous for their dexterous trunks, which the animals use to eat, drink, trumpet and ...

An elephant's trunk is essential for most aspects of the animal's life, from interacting with its environment and with other elephants to eating and drinking. And the roughly 1,000 whiskers covering ...

A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), reveals the secret to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If I could have any pet in the world, I would have an elephant. Well, several, because they like to be together, but I would have ...