Elephants skillfully use hoses as tools, and some even playfully sabotage each other, showing their cleverness and social dynamics. Credit: Urban et al./Current Biology Elephants at the Berlin Zoo ...

This clever elephant didn’t just figure out how to turn a hose into a shower—she also had to deal with a mischievous friend.

Researchers have been impressed by the 'inventive' and 'expressive' use of a hose by an Asian elephant named Mary at the ...

An Asian elephant has been dubbed the “queen of showering” after it was filmed washing itself with a hose in a German zoo, ...

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