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.

In the Berlin Zoo, Mary demonstrated another example of clever elephantine tool use while another animal exhibited a form of ...

By James WoodfordElephants are masters at using a hose – considered a complex tool because of its flexibility, length and the ...

Researchers have been impressed by the 'inventive' and 'expressive' use of a hose by an Asian elephant named Mary at the ...

An Asian elephant has been not-so-secretly filmed showering with a water hose at a zoo in Germany, in what scientists ...

Tool use isn't unique to humans. Chimpanzees use sticks as tools. Dolphins, crows, and elephants are known for their tool-use abilities, too. Now a report highlights elephants' remarkable skill in ...

An Asian elephant named Mary has been secretly filmed displaying "sophisticated behaviour" as she showered herself with a ...

Tool use isn't unique to humans. Chimpanzees use sticks as tools. Dolphins, crows, and elephants are known for their tool-use ...

Brecht described Mary as the “queen of showering,” noting that while elephants often spray themselves with water, the use of a hose—a complex, flexible tool—demonstrates a deeper level of ...

Elephants appear to be exceptionally good with hoses, possibly linked to the similarity between the trunk and the hose.

A pair of elephants at the Berlin Zoo have figured out how to use a hose as a make-shift flexible shower head. Not only do ...