An Elephant Calf Can't Control Its Trunk For The First Year. Here's Proof A video is going viral on Twitter where a baby elephant could be seen swinging its trunk like a helicopter or a turbine fan.

First, the African forest elephant, a third species, wasn’t included in the analysis. She says those animals would have provided another point of reference for the development and use of the trunk.

On average, the trunk of an African elephant can reach up to 7 feet. Asian elephant’s trunks can reach lengths of up to 6 feet. Elephants can lift 4.5% of their weight using their trunk.

Well, it looks like we can thank a changing climate for the evolution of the elephant’s trunk. Proboscideans first started popping up in Africa during the early Eocene, around 55 million years ago.

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.

An elephant attacked a man hiding in a bush in India, launching him into the air with its trunk. Wildlife Institute of India official Swastik Pritam had been taking photos of an elephant herd with ...

Trompita, a 61-year-old Asian elephant, noticed an antelope stuck in that same body of water. She sounded an SOS from her trunk to get the attention of a nearby animal caretaker.