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Baby Elephant With an Unusual Trunk Was Spotted in Kenya — a Vet Had To Be Called Immediately

As a park visitor noticed the middle of the trunk looked tightly cinched, they realized that something was wrong and reported it.
WLRN

There’s a wrinkle — or many — in the story behind an elephant’s trunk

Why is the elephant trunk so wrinkly? It sounds like the start of one of Aesop’s fables. But in a new study in the journal Royal Society Open Science, researchers offer up some answers. This all ...
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Elephant's wrinkles reveal if they are right-trunked or left-trunked

The elephant trunk is a marvel of evolution. It combines the nose and upper lip, contains over 40,000 muscles, and has no bones. Elephants can use their trunks to knock over a tree or gently pick up a ...
AOL

This Baby Elephant Sucks Its Trunk Like a Baby Human Sucks Its Thumb. Here’s Why.

This elephant’s behavior is adorable, and it’s also very typical. Baby elephants are known to suck on their trunks for a variety of reasons. The most common reason is comfort while they learn to use ...
PBS

How The Elephant Got Its Trunk

What suddenly made long jaws such a liability? Well it looks like we can thank a changing climate for the evolution of the elephant’s trunk. Eons is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How an Elephant’s Wrinkles Reveal Whether It Is Right- or Left-Trunked

Elephants' wrinkly trunks might serve a purpose and reveal whether the individual prefers to bend the handy appendage to the right or the left. Byrdyak via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Until ...