Can elephants break their trunks

Anonymous

∙ 9y ago

Updated: 8/21/2019

There are no bones in an elephant's trunk, so they cannot break in the traditional sense of the word. However, they do contain about 40,000 muscles, so they can be injured.

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∙ 9y ago

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What is the conditional form of all elephants have trunks?

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