How does an elephant use it's trunk?
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The trunk of an adult elephant can hold up to ten quarts of water! As with its food, the elephant then squirts the water into its mouth. African elephants also use their trunks to take dust baths, which help to repel insects and guard against the harmful rays of the sun . To give itself a dust bath, an African elephant sucks dust into its trunk, then bends its trunk overhead and blows the dust out over its back. Besides its efficiency as a tool for eating, drinking and taking dust baths, the trunk of an elephant is a unique structure that plays a fundamental part in this animal's olfactory system. Elephants point their trunks in different directions to sample the air for scents, and when swimming (which they do as rarely as possible), they hold their trunks out of the water like snorkels so they can breath. Their trunks are also sensitive and dexterous enough to enable elephants to pick up objects of various sizes, judge their weight and composition, and in some instances even to fend off attackers.
In the trunk of the elephant there are two nostrils through which elephant breathe . but the elephants can also soak up to 8 litres of water into their nostrils and then blow into their mouth they do not drink water directly through their trunk ..
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