This elephant’s behavior is adorable, and it’s also very typical. Baby elephants are known to suck on their trunks for a variety of reasons. The most common reason is comfort while they learn to use ...

A helpless baby elephant has won the Thai public’s sympathy but her case has shed light on the pressures facing herds across Asia ...

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.

Zaiya is all of us if we suddenly woke up with a trunk in the middle of our faces. The baby elephant is so curious about hers! Video taken at the Blackpool Zoo in Lancashire, England shows the baby ...

You might be surprised to learn that a baby elephant doesn’t instinctively know how to use its trunk. When they are born, they lack muscle tone in their trunks, which makes them difficult to control, ...

Elephants use their trunks for a long list of reasons: eating, drinking, smelling, socializing. But trunks have about 40,000 individual muscles — and babies have to learn to use them. “Watching baby ...

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 ...

"His small trunk and ears were free, but his rear-end was stuck fast in dark, oozing mud. He looked exhausted and must have ...

Wildlife photographer Cassie Noel Photography recently shared a core memory from her time on safari: a curious baby elephant ...

Training allows staff to evaluate the elephants’ health and well-being. “She’s learning to touch the tip of her trunk to our hand and we’ll put food into her trunk instead of into her mouth,” ...