Elephant trunk reaching out outline
It can go underwater, keeping only the tip of the trunk over the surface, so it can breathe. The trunk is also the elephant’s all-in-one organ for smell, touch, and respiration. It can tear down large branches of trees, and raise and propel great weights hence the great value of the elephant in warfare, and in marshy countries, as a beast of burden, for the transport of heavy guns and cumbrous baggage.” With it he can strike down an animal, or can raise it into the air and dash it to the earth or he can bend it around its body or its neck, and crush it by powerful compression.
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Researcher Robert Harrison was clearly impressed with he described the elephant’s trunk in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy in 1844: “From the anatomical examination of the complex structure of this very curious appendix, we can understand the powers it displays, and the purposes it effects in the economy of the animal to which it appertains. At the tip are “fingers” - Asian elephants have one of these African elephants have two - which enable the elephant to pick up tiny objects from the ground, and examine them before deciding what to do with them (like eat or discard).
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The trunk is a complex structure of tens of thousands of muscles and nerves, covered in skin that has a series of folds on the upper side and is more wrinkled on the underside. When the trunk is elongate to longer distances, the upper side of the trunk stretches more than the underside(Illustration by Ben Seleb, provided by Andrew Schulz, Georgia Tech) The multitasker