An elephant’s prehensile trunk is a marvel of biology, featuring as many as 60,000 muscles that enable the animal to not just breathe, eat, and drink water, but also to communicate and pinch or grasp ...
A wild Asian elephant in Sri Lanka Amanda Perez / Smithsonian's National Zoo via Flickr under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Like humans, elephants love to munch on bananas. But unlike us, most elephants simply ...
This elephant found a more a-peel-ing way to eat her snack. Just like humans, elephants love to eat bananas, but they don’t usually peel them first. They pick them up with their trunks and eat the ...