10 Extraordinary Facts About Elephant Trunks
10 Extraordinary Facts About Elephant Trunks
Oct 11, 2018
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How many of these trunk facts did you know? Elephant trunks have incredible features and abilities that allow them to navigate the world around them in surprising ways. In fact, the trunk’s unique combination of flexibility and strength has sparked curiosity in engineers who study its abilities so that they can recreate similar structures in robotics. But with elephants’ incredible sense of smell, this special nose is more than just strong and bendy. Here are just 5 surprising facts about elepha
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An elephant’s trunk is a marvel of physiology! These rather odd looking appendages have no bones and no joints, but a whopping 40,000 muscles! In comparison, the human body only has 600 muscles. Strong enough to uproot a tree, but gentle enough to pick a single leaf off a tree...! 🍃 💪🏾 It's really the ultimate multi-tool of the animal kingdom. As with any muscle, you need to train it, to use it! With great muscle, comes great responsibility! This is just one of the reasons why we take the Ret
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