Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An elephant cow Chupa stands in a zoo. Martin Schutt/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa Elephants normally wash themselves by using their handy ...

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 ...

In 1916, a circus arrived in East Tennessee with Mary the elephant at the front of its attractions. Crowds gathered to watch her move through town, unaware of how quickly things would take a violent ...

For Mary the elephant, the best way to get clean is not using her trunk, but a hose. Her surprising act of tool use was captured on video at her home in the Berlin Zoo — along with what researchers ...