For elephant enthusiasts who can't get enough of the five African elephants, the latest additions to the Reid Park Zoo, live cameras streaming video to the zoo's website are in the works. The live ...

For those who think their ex really stinks, the Maryland Zoo is offering a "stinky" way to settle the score. The fundraiser called Dollars for Dung was announced last month, under which the ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo announced Friday that its less than 2-week-old female Asian elephant has been named Linh Mai, Vietnamese for spirit blossom. The 308-pound calf was the first elephant ...

The list of feats Andrew Schulz has witnessed an elephant perform with its trunk is as long as, well, an elephant’s trunk. These powerful proboscises are strong enough to push over 900 pound trees and ...

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Every elephant has about 1,000 whiskers on its trunk. They play a crucial role for the animals, which have thick skin and poor eyesight. Elephants cannot regrow these hairs, meaning a lost one creates ...

An elephant has about 1,000 whiskers on its trunk. Basile Morin via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-4.0 Elephants are famous for their dexterous trunks, which the animals use to eat, drink, trumpet and ...

An elephant’s trunk is a marvelous thing, flexible enough to bend and stretch as it forages for food, but also stiff enough to grasp and maneuver even delicate objects like peanuts or a tortilla chip.

Thirteen miles off the coast of Peru lies a trio of islands with mountainous piles of guano, nicknamed “white gold.” This seabird poop mixed with other waste is such a powerful nitrogen deposit that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute's new Asian elephant calf has a name! Linh Mai [LIN-my] edged ...

An elephant's trunk is essential for most aspects of the animal's life, from interacting with its environment and with other elephants to eating and drinking. And the roughly 1,000 whiskers covering ...