A group of scientists at Georgia Tech Universityrecently studied the ways that elephants use suckingpower when eating. Along the way, the scientists learneda number of other surprising things elephants can dowith their trunks.
Elephants'trunks are incredible. They weigh over90 kilograms, but there are no bones in an elephant'strunk. That helps explain how they can bend and twist,and be used in so many different ways.