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 ...

An Asian elephant has been not-so-secretly filmed showering with a water hose at a zoo in Germany, in what scientists ...

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

By James WoodfordElephants are masters at using a hose – considered a complex tool because of its flexibility, length and the ...

The study started serendipitously when Lena Kaufmann, one of the researchers, noticed Mary the elephant deftly using a water ...

An Asian elephant named Mary has been secretly filmed displaying "sophisticated behaviour" as she showered herself with a ...

Experts believe this was an example of Anchali trying to "sabotage" Mary’s shower by cutting off the water supply using her trunk. The elephant did this by kinking and clamping the hose, as well as ...

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 ...

If you groom your dog at home you know it's a bit of a chore that you probably put off until the last minute. However, my ...

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 ...

A youngster named Anchali developed two different techniques for interrupting the flow of water through ... she gripped the hose close to its end, using it like a portable shower head that she ...