Elephant Trunks—More Complicated Than We Thought

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By Ken Ham

Elephants use their incredibly dexterous trunks almost like a hand with fingers. This trunk boasts around 40,000 individual muscles and can be used to suck up food and water. But the elephant’s trunk isn’t just a “simple straw”—and new research shows it’s more complicated than was initially thought.

A recent study detailed measurements during one zoo elephant’s feeding time. They discovered the elephant can “dilate its nostrils to boost its trunk’s carrying capacity.” Each of an elephant’s two nostrils can increase in volume by a stunning 64%! The “flow rate of water through the trunk averaged about 3.7 liters per …read more

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