Why elephant has a trunk

It has also noted that some elephants have a preferred side to their trunk, just like our right or left-handedness. Some fossil mammoth tusks also show that they rested their trunks by draping them over a preferred tusk. One of the main functions of the elephant's trunk is for feeding and drinking. With two tall, pillar-like legs and a large, heavy head, bending down or reaching up can be very strenuous!

The long trunk alleviates this by allowing the elephant to graze the ground or trees for food without so much as moving their head at all. They can also suck up and squirt almost 14 litres of water into their mouths.

Being strict vegetarians and having such enormous bulk, elephants need to take on and digest an incredible amount of food each day. While their wide,flat grinding teeth work the fibrous plant material into a digestible pulp, the trunk can make itself useful by independently searching and retrieving more food.

No need to stop chewing to graze when you're an elephant! With a sense of smell that is up to four times that of a bloodhound, an elephant's periscoping trunk can hunt out for friends and relatives, potential predators and food or water sources. In this particular story, Elephant couldn't swat away flies, or clean his belly Then one day snappy Crocodile snaps Elephant on the end of his small nose and he pulls, until Ker- Folklore - This is a fantastic story with wonderful illustrations and part of a series, which is why it makes it a WOW book for me.

Elephants nose is all long and wiggly! Elephant decides to call his new nose a trunk and from that day on he can clean and swat away the flies and when he blows his new trunk he has the loudest trumpet in Tinga Tinga! Feb 04, Kate rated it really liked it. Read to the kids to teach about stories from another culture.

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Tinga Tinga Tales 8 books. Books by Claudia Lloyd. Soon, however, Elephant realised that his new stretched nose was more useful than his previously small snout. He was able to reach food and drink without kneeling any more, and could even reach high branches and pull them down to eat the fruit and leaves. All the other Elephants soon realised the benefits of having a long trunk, and one by one they too visited the river and taunted the Crocodile to try and pull them into the water.

The Elephants always won the tug-of-wars, and all ended up with lovely stretched snouts, but Crocodile remained hungry. To this day, all Elephants still have their long trunks rather than a small snout, and Crocodiles have learnt that it is a waste of time and energy attacking Elephants when drinking at the water's edge.

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