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.

our bicep pulls on our forearm 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 hinge on. The muscles take on ...

A friendly baby elephant played with a Japanese tourist, kissing her on the cheek with her trunk. Footage shows four-year-old tusker named Khamkaew coiling her trunk around the holidaymaker who hugged ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...