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

Zaiya 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 hers ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How an Elephant’s Wrinkles Reveal Whether It Is Right- or Left-Trunked

Elephants' wrinkly trunks might serve a purpose and reveal whether the individual prefers to bend the handy appendage to the right or the left. Byrdyak via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Until ...

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

On Tuesday, October 21st, one baby elephant discovered that she had a trunk for the first time. Like anyone would, she ...
NPR

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 ...
Science News

To tell a right-trunked elephant from a lefty, check the wrinkles

There’s a Sherlock Holmes tale in here somewhere: A clever observer could check wrinkles and whiskers on an elephant trunk to catch a left-trunker pachyderm perp masquerading as a righty, thanks to a ...