The Elephant's Trunk

An elephant's trunk is a fusion of the upper lip and nose, frated with forty thousand muscles. We have about 650 in our entire bodies. With its prehensile tip, the African elephant can pluck a single blade of grass or lift 350 kilos or swing a man into the air. There are two thousand olfactory receptors. Bloodhounds have a pot three eight hundred, meaning they can smell water more than three kilometres away. A small group of African elephants have been trained to sniff out landmines in Angola. And it's the trunk that allows them to give their great wild trumpeting when scared or aroused or spoiling for a fight.