The trunk of an African elephant is a remarkable and multi functional ... detecting water sources up to 19.2 km (12 mi.) away ...

People have reported that African elephants avoid land ... 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 ...

A safari truck had a frightening run-in with an angry bull elephant on March 20 at Pilanesberg National Park in South Africa The elephant ... then lifting it with his trunk while the driver ...

The African elephant is the largest land mammal, growing up to 13ft (4m ... The elephant’s trunk is one magnificent multi-tool. The female elephants herd together with juvenile bulls and ...

At remote Abu Camp, visitors can hitch a ride into one of the great water holes of Africa. Sergio Pitamitz ... “I’ve been slapped by an elephant—by its trunk,” he told me.

From his first moments, the calf charmed the keepers, waving his tiny trunk ... 225 African and 284 Asian elephants now reside in North America.) “The Wiese study woke up the elephant community ...

The elephants trunk is their nose ... There are three species of elephants, two are native to Africa and one is native to Asia. In the wild they live where it is very sunny and hot.

African elephants are a matriarchal ... has fallen forward onto her chest and trunk—dangerous for an animal weighing up to 6.5 tons (6 tonnes). An elephant’s lungs are attached to its chest ...