#6: Baby Elephants Have to Learn How to Use Their Trunks You might be surprised to learn that a baby elephant doesn’t instinctively know how to use its trunk. When they are born, they lack muscle tone ...

Elephants use their trunks for a long list of reasons: eating, drinking, smelling, socializing. But trunks have about 40,000 individual muscles — and babies have to learn to use them. “Watching baby ...

If I could have any pet in the world, I would have an elephant. Well, several, because they like to be together, but I would have elephants. Ever since I was a child, I've loved them way too much.