How to eat an elephant: Fossil find in Tanzania shows oldest signs of butchering these giant mammals

Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant, which can weigh up to 6,000 kg. This was Elephas ...
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Baby elephant at National Zoo will make public debut on Earth Day

The Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute is celebrating Earth Day with flair this year. Asian elephant calf Linh Mai will make her public debut at the zoo on April 22, appearing ...
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India Targets Elephant–Train Collisions with 705 Wildlife Mitigation Structures

India has intensified efforts to reduce elephant deaths on railway tracks, with the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) identifying 127 sensitive railway stretches across ...
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Asian Elephant Calf Linh Mai Will Make Her Public Debut April 22 at Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Asian elephant calf Linh Mai will make her public debut at Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute this Earth Day, April 22. She was born Feb. 2 to mother Nhi Linh and father ...
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Endangered Asian Elephant Calf Born at National Zoo After Decades-Long Wait

The National Zoo in Washington, D.C., just welcomed a newborn Asian elephant calf. Asian Elephants are listed as endangered due to habitat loss, poaching, and disease. It marks the first Asian ...
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Remarkable Sense of Touch in Elephant’s Trunk Isn’t Just about Muscles or Nerves: Study

Keratin composites enable animals to hike with hooves, fly with feathers, and sense with skin. Mammalian whiskers are elongated keratin rods attached to tactile skin structures that extend the ...
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Endangered Asian Elephant Calf Born at National Zoo After Decades-Long Wait

It’s not every day that an endangered species welcomes a new individual in the safety and security of one of the world’s greatest zoos. Last week, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...
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Endangered Asian elephant calf born at Smithsonian Zoo receives name

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — An endangered Asian elephant calf born at the Smithsonian Zoo received its name. After many fans voted ...
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Study unlocks the secrets of the whiskers on an elephant's trunk

Feb 13 (Reuters) - An elephant's trunk is essential for most aspects of the animal's life, from interacting with its environment and with other elephants to eating and drinking. And the roughly 1,000 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

An Elephant’s Trunk Is Covered in Whiskers—and They’re Unlike Those on Any Other Animal, a New Study Suggests

An elephant has about 1,000 whiskers on its trunk. Basile Morin via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-4.0 Elephants are famous for their dexterous trunks, which the animals use to eat, drink, trumpet and ...
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Elephants are smart. So are their whiskers.

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