An Asian elephant has learned to mimic five words in Korean, creating a humanlike tone by sticking its trunk into its mouth. This is the first systematically studied case of an elephant mimicking ...

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 ...

Scientists say an Asian elephant at a South Korean zoo can imitate human speech, saying five Korean words that are readily understood by people who speak the language. The male elephant, named Koshik, ...

Tuesday is World Elephant Day. Here are five things to know about the largest land animals on our planet. A multidisciplinary team of scientists has conducted a study of Asian and African elephant ...

A bump in the elephant brain stem pointed scientists to the wrinkles on their trunks and the role those folds play in the animal’s life. Why is the elephant trunk so wrinkly? It sounds like the start ...