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”.

But in an elephant trunk, there are no bones to pull and no ... they can use it as a hose, or more like a fire hose. With one suck, a trunk can pull in as much as 10 liters of water.

Over time, she got better at kinking the hose—and she did it more often. The younger elephant also developed a new behavior, which the team calls a trunk stand, that involves leaning into her ...