The Carthaginian general Hannibal famously followed up with 37 ... with elaborate trunk-like noses. Westphal’s research has also documented “clusters” of medieval elephant illustrations ...

The elephant proboscis (trunk) exhibits an extraordinary kinematic versatility as it can manipulate a single blade of grass but also carry loads up to 270 ... in human hand drawing movements.

An Asian elephant has one “finger” at the trunk’s tip, so it will pick up an object by wrapping the entire trunk around it. African savanna elephants, on the other hand, have two of these ...

This is when the elephant uses its trunk to bring the drum closer and plays it perfectly with its trunk. Watch the video below: Since being shared on November 10, the video has raked up more than ...

At the trunk’s tip, African elephant have two fingers while Asian elephants have one. The dexterity of the fingers allows an elephant the ability to do things like deftly pick up a single blade ...

A right-trunked elephant is more likely to curl its trunk to the right to pick things up, while a left-trunked elephant would prefer to bend it the other way. In the study, the groups of elephants ...