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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.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoThey use their trunks for eating, drinking, showering and smelling.An elephants trunk is really interesting it could do lots and lots of mysterious things.Too bad that people kill them for their skin.
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∙ 13y agoTo wash themselves and also to get the food in their mouths
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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.
What do baby elephants suck with?
Baby elephants suck with their trunks
Why do elephants pick things up with their trunks?
They pick up with trunks because trunks are hands to elephants and they have no other way to pick up there food
What are elephants trunks made from?
thousands of muscles
How does elephant protect itself?
Well, Elephants have a tough skin to protect themselves from insect bites, they use their trunks to hit their enemies. Elephants even use mud to protect themselves from a sun burn.
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!
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.
Do elephants use their trunks and feet to detect sounds?
yes
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
How do elephant's drink?
Elephants draw the water up into their trunks and then squirt the water from their trunks into their mouth.
What do baby elephants suck with?
Baby elephants suck with their trunks
Why do elephants pick things up with their trunks?
They pick up with trunks because trunks are hands to elephants and they have no other way to pick up there food
What do mammoths and elephants have in common?
Their trunks
