All the king’s horses and all the king’s men may not have been able to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. Perhaps they should have handed the job over to these incredible elephants who worked as a team to rescue a calf from their herd stuck in a waterhole. Footage captured at South Africa’s Kruger National Park shows a tiny baby elephant stuck in a shallow ditch of muddy water. […]

The huge animals are being taught how to use their trunks’ super-strength sense of smell to detect explosives You’ve heard of a military task force, now army chiefs have sniffed out a potentially huge innovation – a military tusk force. Elephants are being trained to use their trunks’ super-strength sense of smell to detect explosives and minefields. The animals are proving to be brilliant at identifying which of the buckets […]