But what made a trunk advantageous actually appears to have very little to do with reaching up and browsing on branches. Instead, it has a lot more to do with reaching down and yanking plants up.

The elephant is also picky about her bananas. She tosses away overripe bananas and eats underripe bananas whole like most elephants, but only seems to peel the perfectly brown-speckled ones.

An elephant at a German zoo likes to peel her banana with her trunk — a trick so unusual that she's become the subject of a scientific study.You could say researchers "went bananas" over Pang ...