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Look at This Baby Elephant Joyfully Learning to Use Her Trunk at Blackpool Zoo

What a sweetie!
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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 ...
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 ...
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There’s a wrinkle — or many — in the story behind an elephant’s trunk

A bump in the elephant brain stem pointed scientists to the wrinkles on their trunks and the role those folds play in the animal’s life. Why is the elephant trunk so wrinkly? It sounds like the start ...