5 Amazing Facts about Elephants’ Trunk
Elephant’s trunk serve many purposes.
- Unusually large muscle. There are about 8 major muscles on each side and about 150,000 muscle bundle into a trunk. The trunk is very strong even can push down the small size tree easily.
- A Boneless muscular structure. Elephant’s trunk is just link human tongue.
- Built-in Snorkel. The elephant’s trunk is very useful as they don’t need to blend down to water and easily reach out for leaves on high tree.
- Super hydro system. Elephant can suck up numerous amount of water and spray out from it’s trunk.
- Communicated tool. Trunk is not only for breathing, smelling and feeding (bring the food to the mouth). It’s also help communicating with other show caring, greeting etc.