Twisty, twirly, trunks!! 🐘🌿 Did you know there are 40,000 recognized muscles in the trunk of an elephant? 🤯 There are thought to be around 650 in the entire human body!! 😳 The trunk is both an upper lip and a nose with two nostrils running through its entire length. At the trunk’s tip, African elephant have two fingers while Asian elephants only have one. The dexterity of the fingers allows an elephant the ability to pinch and pick up a single grain of rice. 🌾 Elephants use their trunks for
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How many of these trunk facts did you know? Elephant trunks have incredible features and abilities that allow them to navigate the world around them in surprising ways. In fact, the trunk’s unique combination of flexibility and strength has sparked curiosity in engineers who study its abilities so that they can recreate similar structures in robotics. But with elephants’ incredible sense of smell, this special nose is more than just strong and bendy. Here are just 5 surprising facts about elepha
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Elephant trunks can uproot trees, gingerly pluck individual leaves and have a sense of smell more powerful than a bomb-sniffing dog’s. But until recently, their suction power was a mystery. Read more here: https://nyti.ms/3co2ZOH | The New York Times
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