There’s a Sherlock Holmes tale in here somewhere: A clever observer could check wrinkles and whiskers on an elephant trunk to catch a left-trunker pachyderm perp masquerading as a righty ...

Wrinkles can even reveal whether an individual elephant prefers to bend its trunk to the right or the left, according to the new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science on Wednesday.

Prior research has shown that the elephant trunk is a remarkable anatomical structure—made of some 46,000 muscles, it can be bent, turned, twisted and flapped depending on the needs of its owner.

That’s right: an elephant’s trunk, probably the most iconic and versatile piece of its anatomy, has a lot to tell us about its owner. You can, it turns out, estimate the animal’s age from ...

Wrinkles can even reveal whether an individual elephant prefers to bend its trunk to the right or the left, according to the new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science on Wednesday.

They found that wrinkles tended to appear under the side of the trunk that was used the most, because of how the elephant would bend to get certain items. The elephant's whiskers also are slightly ...

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And, in a recent TikTok video, one content creator issued a warning about what could happen if users attempt to manually close an auto-close trunk. She showed the damage her Audi sustained after ...