Stefan F. Wirth#Elephants eat by bringing their food to their #mouths using their trunks. But that only works #sideways. An evolutionary adaptation to the fact that the #trunk, as an extended nose and at the same time a highly innervated, precise #grippingorgan, is connected to further skull #modifications, even the arrangement of mouth #vibrissae. There are also left-wing and right-wing “drunkers,” as scientists have recently discovered.
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My #blogarticle:
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Stefan F. Wirth (@wirthstef) on X
About #elephants as social herd animals that communicate in complex ways, about the #trunk as a #grippingorgan and the findings of a current scientific study based on #Asianelephants on why they use their trunks to insert food into the side of their mouths and that there are even