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Because they use their trunk as their mouth sometimes to when they want to drink.
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How does the elephant use their trunks?
elephants use their trunk to spray water over their body to keep cool and to drink water and they sometimes bath with their trunk
Why does an elephant use its trunk?
It uses its trunk to pick up food, break branches from trees, lift items, to suck up water to drink etc.
In what ways does an elephant use its trunk?
The elephant uses his trunk to eat (the trunk grasps the food and then puts it in the elephants mouth), to shower (takes in water in his trunk and the throws it out on him) and to make noise (to trumpet).
What is the difference between the trunk of the African elephant and the trunk of the Indian elephant?
The trunk of an Indian elephant ends in one 'finger' while the African elephant's trunk ends with two.
How many muscles in an elephant's trunk?
The amount of muscles an elephant has in its trunk varies on the size of the elephant, as an elephant grows larger it will build more muscles. The average elephant has approximately 40,000 muscles in its trunk.
Do elephants drink out of their nose?
Answer : Yes,an elephant breathes through its trunk, or proboscis, which has 2 nostrils through which air can pass.But an elephants muscular trunk-which nearly reaches the ground- can do several other remarkable things. On the end of the trunk is a sensitive, fingertip lip or protuberance( an African elephant has 2) that can feel and pick up food and other objects.
What structure does an elephant use in order to obtain water?
its trunk
What two things does an elephant use its trunk for?
bathing and eating
How many trunk does an elephant have?
An elephant has just one trunk.
What has a trunk but it is not an elephant?
An Elephant Seal. It's kinda like a trunk.
What would happen to an elephant if it lost its trunk or was born without one.?
i think the elephant will starf or will have to be fed in actually i heard that the elephant wouldn't be able to drink, eat, or have dust showers.
Why does elephant drink water by trunk why not by mouth?
The elephants trunk and tusks make it problematic to get it's mouth down to water level - so it adapts. Simple.
