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2007-05-18 16:51:53 · 12 answers · asked by irene 1 in Science & Mathematics Zoology

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Elephants don't eat with their 'nose'. What they do is to wrap their trunk around tufts of grass or branches of leaves and tear it off the ground or tree and then curl their trunk under and pop the vegetation into their mouth.
Basically, there are no bones in an elephant's trunk, but it has more than 40,000 muscles and tendons, and its tip is covered with nerve endings. The trunk is strong enough to rip the branches off a tree or hoist a 300lb log, and yet supple and sensitive enough to pick up a single blade of grass,and amazingly precise that it can also pick up a penny lying flat on the floor.
By filling its trunk with gallons of water, an elephant drinks by blowing the water into its mouth or gives itself a quick shower by spraying the water all over itself. The trunk is also used as a snorkel when an elephant goes into the water.

Familiar elephants will greet each other by entwining their trunks, much like a handshake. They also use them while play-wrestling, and gently caressing during courtship and mother / child interactions.

2007-05-18 17:17:40 · answer #1 · answered by shanna 2 · 0 0

Elephants don't. The long trunk gives that impression, but the mouth is located below the trunk on the body, just like a person with a big nose.

2007-05-18 17:10:49 · answer #2 · answered by cattbarf 7 · 0 0

Elephants use their snout like a tool for many purposes and one of which is aiding their eating.

Elephants are large animals that do not have a great deal of flexibility. Their noses can reach down and up and all around.

Elephants use their noses for showing affection to their young, tearing up brush, rinsing themselves with water and drinking water.

Eating with their trunks is just one of many things that Elephants do.

2007-05-18 17:04:17 · answer #3 · answered by Shanna S 4 · 0 0

Elephants don't eat with their noses. Their trunk is like your fingers - if you watch an elephant picking up a peanut in its trunk, you will see that it uses the rim of the trunk like very sensitive phalanges and can pick up quite small items. What it does once it picks them up, is curl its trunk under and pop the food into its mouth, where it chews it just as all animals masticate their food before swallowing.

2007-05-18 17:00:52 · answer #4 · answered by old lady 7 · 0 0

They do not actually eat with their noses. They pick up their food with their trunks and put the food in their mouths. Their trunks act as a hand.

2007-05-18 16:59:20 · answer #5 · answered by Linda C 2 · 0 0

They don't eat with their trunks.
You try eating with your nose.
The trunks acts like arms for them to lift up their food to eat.

2007-05-18 17:18:45 · answer #6 · answered by ♥♥Pro♥♥ 6 · 0 0

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2016-12-29 12:41:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

They don't eat with their noses, they just use their trunks like a hand to lift food to their mouths.

You're funny :)

2007-05-18 16:54:00 · answer #8 · answered by Aubrey and Braeden's Mommy 5 · 1 0

Actually they only pick up with their snout and place the food in their mouth much like you do with your hands

2007-05-18 16:55:39 · answer #9 · answered by mes210 4 · 0 0

they don't have hands...the nose is there hand

to pick things up and eat

2007-05-18 16:54:36 · answer #10 · answered by Do I know you? ya right LoL 4 · 0 0

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