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They use their trunks like an extra limb to pick things up or to use it as a pipe to spray or drink water

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What things elephants cannot do with their trunks?

Elephants can't ride to a airplane..but all can do that even a monkey or other animals...


What do elephants use their trunks for?

elephants use their trunks for many things. the main things are to : - reach up into trees and get leaves. - when they are eating or drinking water they get the food/water with their trunk and hold it with their trunk then they scoop it into their mouth.


Use Darwin's theory to explain how the trunks of elephants might get longer over many generations?

At one time in history there were elephants with long trunks and elephants with shorter trunks. The long trunks helped those elephants to survive and therefore pass their traits to the next generation.


Why do elephants pick things up with their trunks?

Elephants use their trunks to pick things up because it is a highly versatile and dextrous tool that allows them to grasp, carry, and manipulate objects with precision. The trunk also serves as their nose, enhancing their sense of smell and helping them to find food and water in their environment.


Why do elephant have trunks?

Since elephants are so tall and high over the ground, trunks help them reach the ground and far above themselves for food in trees other animals cannot reach.Also, they use their trunk like a water bottle, holding water to bring to their mouths. They have a separate network of passages to breath and a separate holding area. They can use their trunks to fight over a mate or an enemy, too. Elephants use their trunks to bring food to their mouth from high up in trees to as low as the ground. They use them to help their young as a balance beam and to draw, kiss, and hug.Trunks are also used to push, pull, lift, signal, and shower.All elephants, whether African or Asian, have trunks!so they can eat food high in the trees

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Do elephants use their trunks to smell their surroundings?

Yes, elephants use their trunks to smell their surroundings. Their trunks are equipped with a highly developed sense of smell that helps them locate food, water, and other elephants.


How do elephants here?

ELephants have great hearing senses. They use it actually with their very large ears and their trunks. The use their large ears for listening. And they use their trunks for warning other elephants of predators or for playing.!~!!~


How do elephants drink water?

Elephants have long trunks that they use to drink with, not there mouths!


Why do elephants wave their trunks in the air?

The elephant's ears are large and thin, with lots of blood vessels. Flapping its ears is a way for the elephant to cool itself.


What things elephants cannot do with their trunks?

Elephants can't ride to a airplane..but all can do that even a monkey or other animals...


Do elephants use their trunks and feet to detect sounds?

yes


Can an elephant snorkel?

No. Elephants breathe air. They might swim underwater and use their trunks like snorkels to breathe air, but, that is the exception to the rule. Most elephants stay on land and never go more than a few feet into the water.


What is the conditional form of all elephants have trunks?

If all elephants have trunks, then they must be present.


What do walruses use there trunks for?

Walruses do not have trunks. They have tusks. They use their tusks to dig up clams to eat and to fight other males for the right to mate females. Only elephants have trunks.


What are the organs of ingestion in elephant?

Elephants use their trunks to put food into their mouths.


What do they do with the elephants trunks?

elephants have 40,000 muscles in there trunk


What is it that elephants and trees have?

Trunks