Mary the elephant shows off her hose-showering skills. Credit: Urban et al./Current Biology An Asian elephant named Mary living at the Berlin Zoo surprised researchers by figuring out how to use a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elephants are known for their intelligence and social complexity, and recent observations show they might even engage in playful ...

An Asian elephant has been dubbed the “queen of showering” after it was filmed washing itself with a hose in a German zoo, demonstrating “remarkable skill”, according to stunned scientists. Mary was ...

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. Reading time 2 minutes Footage of hose-wielding Asian elephants at the ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...