#6: Baby Elephants Have to Learn How to Use Their Trunks You might be surprised to learn that a baby elephant doesn’t instinctively know how to use its trunk. When they are born, they lack muscle tone ...

Elephants use their trunks for a long list of reasons: eating, drinking, smelling, socializing. But trunks have about 40,000 individual muscles — and babies have to learn to use them. “Watching baby ...

If you’ve ever watched an elephant eat and drink, you may think it’s a simple process. The largest land mammals in the world use their long trunks to pick up food — about 400 pounds a day — and move ...