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30 Weird Facts about Elephants

Quick facts about Elephants *An elephant's trunk is actually an extended nose and upper lip.An adult African elephant's trunk is about two meters long. *Elephants uses trunks for smelling,touching,grasping,collect food and water,breathing,and even hurl objects. *Elephants can suck 7.5 liters of water into its trunk at a time. *Elephants will use their trunk to make loud trumpeting noise, in case,if it is threatened and give warnings to other elephants. * Elephants are fond of water and enjoy showering by sucking water into their trunks and spraying it all over themselves. Afterwards, they often spray their skin with a protective coating of dust. *The trunk contains an estimated 100,000 muscles and tendons in the trunk, giving it extreme flexibility and strength. *Asian elephants have one finger—like projection at the tip of the trunk and African elephants have two. These finger—like projections are used for grasping small and delicate objects. *
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