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Baby Elephant at Blackpool Zoo Trying to Figure Out What Her Trunk Does Is Too Cute

Z aiya 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 ...
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Precious Baby Elephant ‘Discovers Her Trunk’ and It’s the Sweetest

Zaiya, the successful product or breeding between two of their elephants, is the first baby born at Blackpool Zoo, and she ...

Do Elephants Truly Mourn Their Dead? Exploring Elephant Grief

Elephants are known for being wildly intelligent and incredibly social. They’re also one of the few animals — aside from ...
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There’s a wrinkle — or many — in the story behind an elephant’s trunk

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 ...
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Elephant Who Keeps Snatching Food Is So Precious

It didn’t really matter what the person put forward for the elephant to munch on: apples, carrots, tomatoes, a head of ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

Research on elephants could translate to robotics

Understanding how elephants use their trunks to pick up small objects could lead to robots designed with flexible hands or grippers, according to a new study that includes Rochester Institute of ...