A strangulated bellow, like an experimental jazz trumpet, sounds in retort, and I open my eyes to see an elephant, flapping its ears and raising its trunk in alarm on the ground below. He looks at ...

Nandi the baby elephant started life with a spaghetti noodle of a nose, but her mom is teaching the calf that her trunk can be so much more Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Well, elephants wouldn't be that impressed. They do it on the daily, thanks to what's inside their trunk. If you were to dissect an elephant trunk, it would actually look more like the inside of ...

and has great trunk control for such a young age. This baby’s really keeping mom on her toes.” Tula-Tu at the Oregon Zoo Attendance is up at the Oregon Zoo. Could it be the baby elephant?

Tula-Tu becomes more and more elephant-like every day. Sure, she’s still pretty tiny — for an Asian elephant calf, at least (At just over 1 month old, she now weighs 287 pounds. When she was ...