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.

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”.

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 ...

But not Mary, an Asian elephant who has been dubbed Berlin ... She prefers to shower her right with her trunk and her left with the hose. When the team introduced Mary to different hose sizes ...