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FAST FACTS
An elephant’s trunk A trunk has five times The trunk is strong
is up to 7 ft (2.1 m) the amount of smell enough to lift 770 lb
long. With head receptors that are in a (350 kg), the same weight
raised and trunk person’s nose and can as 28 gold bars.
extended, an smell a banana from
elephant can reach 165 ft (50 m) away.
up 23 ft (7 m) to
pluck branches
from trees.
165 ft (50 m)

An elephant sucks up
water in its trunk to drink,
to spray clean its mouth,
or to shower itself.
Elephants also spray
themselves with
mud and dust
to keep cool.

Tusks are the
elephant’s incisor
An African teeth and never
elephant’s trunk stop growing. African elephants feed regularly.
can hold as much The longest They use their trunks to tear off
liquid as 30 measure more tough vegetation from trees
soda cans. than 11½ ft (3.5 m), before their large teeth break it
almost reaching
the ground. down. Male elephants also fight
for supremacy and females by
wrestling with their trunks.

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