Zookeepers have blamed fireworks on the annual Bonfire Night celebrations for the death of a baby red panda named Roxie.

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

Scientists and conservationists here say they’ve brought a zebralike mammal back from the dead, giving the quagga a major win ...

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.

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 ...

In the Berlin Zoo, Mary, an Asian elephant, demonstrated another example of clever elephantine tool use.

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