Elephants at the Berlin Zoo display remarkable tool use: one showers with a hose while another disrupts the water, hinting at ...

Not only does Mary the Asian elephant prefer to shower herself, but she's really good at it. So good, in fact, that her ...

Mary, a 54-year-old Asian elephant at the Berlin Zoo, is the “queen of showering,” but her companion Anchali seems to have figured out how to exploit that habit to play pranks ...

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.

An Asian elephant named Mary living at the Berlin Zoo surprised researchers by figuring out how to use a hose to take her ...

Elephants seem to not only know how to use the hose, but also how to intentionally interfere with others using it.

The team also observed fellow elephant Anchali, who seemed to interrupt Mary's bath time by trying to stop the water flow ...

When we think of animals using tools, animals like chimpanzees might come to mind. But some of the tools elephants use would surprise you.

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In the Berlin Zoo, Mary demonstrated another example of clever elephantine tool use while another animal exhibited a form of mischief with a hose that resembled a prank.

Asian elephants at Berlin Zoo show impressive skill when using a hose as a tool, and even appear to sabotage each other by stopping the flow of water ...

Urban et al./Current Biology] In a fascinating display of animal intelligence, researchers have documented the sophisticated use of a hose by an Asian elephant named Mary at the Berlin Zoo, as ...