An Asian elephant has been not-so-secretly filmed showering with a water hose at a zoo in Germany, in what scientists described as a “sophisticated behaviour” that shows “remarkable skill”.

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 they use the water to get clean, but they have been observed turning the ...

Mary, an Asian elephant at Berlin Zoo, was captured showering herself with a water hose to the shock of scientists. The footage shows Mary methodically washing her body with the hose, using her ...

As an unexpected bonus, researchers say they also have evidence that a fellow elephant knows how to turn the water off, perhaps as a kind of "prank." "Elephants are amazing with hoses," says ...

An Asian elephant named Mary has been secretly filmed displaying "sophisticated behaviour" as she showered herself with a water hose at Berlin Zoo. Experts from Humbolt University of Berlin have ...

The elephant, called Anchali, sabotaged her friend Mary's shower by lifting and kinking the hose to disrupt the flow of water. The researchers say they now wonder what the findings in zoo ...

The group unsuccessfully sued in 2022 on behalf of an elephant at the Bronx Zoo named Happy. The highest court in New York ruled that Happy, while intelligent and deserving of compassion ...

VIDEO: A video abstract for the 2024 Current Biology paper on elephant water hose tool use.CREDIT: Urban et al./Current Biology “Elephants are amazing with hoses,” Michael Brecht, a study co ...

An Asian elephant named Mary has been secretly filmed displaying "sophisticated behaviour" as she showered herself with a water hose at Berlin Zoo. Experts from Humbolt University of Berlin have ...