How does an elephant use its trunk for so many different things?
Trunk's Endless Jobs
How does an elephant use its trunk for so many different things?
An elephant's trunk looks like one floppy hose, but it might be the most versatile tool in the whole animal kingdom. It can lift a heavy log, then turn around and pick up a single peanut. How does one wobbly nose do so many jobs?
Here's the secret hiding inside: muscles. Your whole arm has a few dozen muscles. An elephant's trunk has around forty thousand bundles of muscle, all woven together. And there isn't a single bone inside it — not one. That's what makes it so unbelievably bendy.
