Wrinkles can even reveal whether an individual elephant prefers to bend its trunk to the right or the left, according to the new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science on Wednesday.

The tough upper skin of an elephant’s trunk, which crumples into creases and crags like the folded furrows of a shar-pei puppy, is about 15 percent stretchier than the gently wrinkled skin on ...

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Elephants have about a 50:50 chance of being either left or right “trunked,” the paper reads. So it’s not surprising the scientists found half of elephants’ trunks had more wrinkles on the ...

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Around 2 p.m., the elephant just walked right up. I came out and tried to shoo it away. ... It used its trunk to gently push the freezer out of the way so it could fit inside,” she said.

"The script called for the elephant to step forward while swinging her trunk from side to side, but Rosie got her signals mixed up. Instead, she sat down on her big butt, lifted her front legs ...

Wrinkles can even reveal whether an individual elephant prefers to bend its trunk to the right or the left, according to the new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science on Wednesday.