It belongs to a category called figure-ground impossibilities, where parts of the object (the elephant’s legs) seems to merge with the background, making it difficult to count the legs.

The fiendish brainteaser asks viewers to work out how many legs this sketched elephant has, but nobody can agree on the right answer. Appearing on Reddit, the tricky challenge centres on a black ...

No matter how smart you are ... optical illusion from the 1980s and asks people to figure out how many legs the elephant has. It's a simple, black and white sketch of the animal - but counting ...

Based on this observation, scientists expected the super-sized elephant to have the stiffest legs of all. The measurements were so difficult to make that no one had ever checked; it’s not easy ...

A baby elephant in Thailand has died after his back legs snapped performing tricks for ... never to pay to see animals in captivity. “No animal deserves to repeat Dumbo’s tragic story ...

Mosha is the first elephant ever to receive a functional prosthetic leg. Motola, the elephant that was injured by a landmine, has her prosthetic leg attached at the Friends of the Asian Elephant ...

This is the heartbreaking moment a young elephant was spotted dragging its badly broken leg around as it suffers without any pain relief. The 'baby Dumbo' has reportedly been spotted numerous ...

While the elephant is now no longer collapsed, his injuries remain severe. He is still unable to put weight on his injured front legs and transporting him to Wildlife SOS' elephant hospital—whic ...