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Elephants are left- or right-trunked — and it’s all in their amazing wrinkles
In fact, an elephant’s trunk contains over 46,000 muscles, compared to the human body’s 600 to 700. These muscles allow the ...
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Elephant's wrinkles reveal if they are right-trunked or left-trunked
The elephant ... photographs or drawings of fetuses at different ages. By lining these up sequentially, the researchers were able to form a visual timeline of prenatal trunk development.
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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.
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Elephant Recorded Peeling a Banana With Its Trunk for the First Time
In the video below, you can watch as the elephant breaks off the top of a banana with her trunk and tosses it on the ground. When she picks it up again, the fruit falls away from the loose peel ...
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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 ...