In referring to my comments, “Eavesdropping on the Elephants” (The Chronicle, November 10) presented a misleading and oversimplified version of a complex picture that Benjamin Hart and I explained to ...

The whiskers on an elephant's trunk are key to its "amazing" sense of touch, reveals new research. The 1,000 hairs that cover the trunk have unusual properties that highlight where contact happens ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The list of feats Andrew Schulz has witnessed an elephant perform with its trunk is as long as, well, an elephant’s trunk. These ...

Elephants use their feet to sense vibrations in the ground. This is one of the ways that they "hear" the things happening around them. Humans and other animals actually have a similar sense. You might ...

There’s a sixth sense that several mammals use to make sense of the world: a group of specialised sensory hair, we call whiskers. Cats and mice have them, and so do elephants And they are no ...

Each year, pregnant female elephant seals take an approximately 240-day trek over 10,000 kilometers across the Eastern North Pacific Ocean before returning to their breeding beaches to give birth ...

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 ...