A curious baby elephant clumsily mimics its mother’s every trunk move, learning one wobble at a time, while the rest of the herd blissfully splashes in a muddy bath ...

An adult African elephant's trunk is about seven feet ... Nostrils are located at the tip of the trunk and function in ...

Well, elephants wouldn't be that impressed. They do it on the daily, thanks to what's inside their trunk. If you were to dissect an elephant trunk, it would actually look more like the inside of ...

Nerve cells in the African elephant’s facial motor nucleus (left). The facial nucleus is the brain structure, which controls the muscles of the face. Trunk tip of an African elephant with the ...

An elephant in musth is looking for a mate ... at Etosha.This past summer Greg developed a gaping hole near the tip of his trunk—probably an abscess. It caused him to spill water as he drank.

Nandi the baby elephant started life with a spaghetti noodle of a nose, but her mom is teaching the calf that her trunk can be so much more Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...

An unusual convoy is nearing Argentina’s lush border with Brazil, after snaking through traffic-snarled roads for hours.