The elephant's trunk is a fusion of the nose and upper lip, and is said to have over 40,000 individual muscles.

Elephants are the largest living land animal, and have the longest gestation period of any land animal--22 months.

An Indian elephant at the Albuquerque Zoo, standing in the sun, in profile.

An Indian elephant at the Albuquerque Zoo making the most of an oppoortunity for a dust bath.

An Indian elephant flinging dust over its legs and the underside of its belly, stirring up a cloud of dust in the late afternoon sunlight.

The head and shoulders of an Indian elephant standing in sunlight in the Albuquerque zoo.

This Indian elephant is in no danger of exceeding the posted speed limit.

An asian elephant at the Australia Zoo in Queensland, with two other elephants and the Aussie forest in the background.

The grass is definitely greener on the other side of this electric fence at Steve Erwin's Australia Zoo in Queensland, Australia.

Seems unlikely that this massive Indian elephant could be constrained by a single thin wire.

An Indian (also known as Asian) elephant at the Australia Zoo in Queensland.

The Indian (or Asian) elephant pictured here lives at the Australia Zoo in Queensland.

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