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Walking up to the vendor, the baby elephant adorably gestures for some watermelon. The woman behind the stall obliges, ...
An elephant named "Shanmai," rolled the shoe up with its trunk, rubbed off the mud on it, and held up its trunk over the fence edge to return the shoe to the child who accidentally dropped a shoe ...
The elephant has a secret hiding right on its nose. Its famous trunk, full of muscle and devoid of bone, can move in a virtually infinite number of directions and is capable of performing an array ...
How The Elephant Got Its Trunk. Season 7 Episode 4 | 11m 53s Video has Closed Captions | CC. What led to the creation of the trunk? Aired 09/10/2024 | Rating NR. From ...
On average, the trunk of an African elephant can reach up to 7 feet. Asian elephant’s trunks can reach lengths of up to 6 feet. Elephants can lift 4.5% of their weight using their trunk.
Lions know better than to take on elephants, at least without the safety of numbers. A video out of the Kruger National Park, ...
But the determined elephant didn’t give up. Cheered on by a crowd, it eventually wrapped its trunk around the gazelle’s horn and pulled it to safety!
The gazelle was unable to escape a body of water in the middle of the enclosure. When its fellow zoo mate noticed, it jumped into action. The quick-thinking elephant extended its trunk into the water ...
A grown elephant trunk can lift up to 770 pounds and contain 40,000 muscles. Elephant trunks are stunted at birth, then rapidly elongate over the course of a few days.
An Asian elephant has gone viral after pictures of it using its trunk as a snorkel popped up. Colonel, one of seven Asian elephants at the Forth Worth Zoo in Texas, was spotted using its trunk to ...
After measuring how quickly the elephant could use its trunk to suck up water, the researchers calculated that elephant noses could inhale at speeds exceeding 490 feet per second, ...