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 ...

"As we build up more information ... it suggested the animal was asleep. An African elephant's trunk can weigh between 270 to 290 pounds, so the appendage is unlikely to twitch or flop around ...

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.

The largest land mammal on Earth, elephants embody the African landscape. Using seasonal cues and their long-term memories, these hulking creatures travel vast distances in close-knit herds to find ...

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

This unit of three sessions imagines life at a typical waterhole in the African ... Warm up: soaring as vultures with arms outstretched. Elephants: one arm outstretched as trunk; slow plodding ...

The elephant then escalates the situation by pushing the rhino with its trunk. But the mother ... Elephants win out on size. Male African elephants can weigh up to 14,000 pounds.