Some of the 200+ comments left by viewers made us smile and laugh. @Care Baer24 describes a baby elephant's trunk perfectly: "I love that trunks are basically dangly noodle hands that the babies can ...

This elephant’s behavior is adorable, and it’s also very typical. Baby elephants are known to suck on their trunks for a variety of reasons. The most common reason is comfort while they learn to use ...

Tiny Trunk Tuesday is everything! To mark the event, we got an awesome compilation video of Tula-Tu from the Oregon Zoo. In ...

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! Video taken at the Blackpool Zoo in Lancashire, England shows the baby ...

Portland’s favorite pachyderm, Tula-Tu, may be halfway to a ton — but she’s still certifiably tiny, at least by elephant standards. The trunked toddler, who turned 1 year old last month, has been ...

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 ...

Tula-Tu becomes more and more elephant-like every day. Sure, she’s still pretty tiny — for an Asian elephant calf, at least (At just over 1 month old, she now weighs 287 pounds. When she was born, she ...

• At birth, an elephant calf typically weighs 230 pounds and stands over 2 ½ feet tall. Baby elephants are nearly blind at birth and rely upon their trunks and their mothers to help them. • A newborn ...

Just like human babies and toddlers, young animals learn by watching those around them. If you’ve ever seen a baby try to stand on wobbly legs or figure out how to hold a spoon, you know how much ...