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

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

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.

Now, an Asian elephant named Mary, who lives at the Berlin Zoo, has developed a more advanced technique, using a large hose to give herself a shower. Mary’s hose-wielding appears to be the ...

They found that Mary preferred the 24-millimeter (0.9-inch) hose, spending the largest fraction of time showering with it out of all three options. When given the thickest hose, Mary chose to spend ...

Mary was never trained to shower herself, they said, and does use her trunk some of the time. A hose used like a lasso For different body parts, the elephant uses different techniques. To spray ...

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But another elephant - perhaps jealous of Mary’s unusual expertise in self-hygiene - attempted to sabotage her happy shower, in what astonished scientists described as an “unexpected bonus”.

New research on elephants has shown one individual to be particularly adept at tool use, even mastering it to have a shower. The individual in question is Mary, an Asian elephant living at Berlin ...