The elephant has a secret hiding right on its nose. Its famous trunk, full of muscle and devoid of bone, can move in a virtually infinite number of directions and is capable of performing an array ...

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Skin wrinkles and folds enable asymmetric stretch in the elephant trunk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Published online July 18, 2022. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2122563119.

First, the African forest elephant, a third species, wasn’t included in the analysis. She says those animals would have provided another point of reference for the development and use of the trunk.

The thick, immobile whiskers on an elephant’s trunk may help it to feel and balance objects even though they cannot twitch in the way that many other mammals’ whiskers do, a study suggests.

However, that trunk sometimes finds its way into an elephant’s mouth as a result of its sucking reflex. When elephants are born, they experience the same sucking reflex as a newborn baby.

Even a baby elephant, like this newborn Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), has a well-wrinkled trunk, which is so much more useful than storybook smooth forms.Paul Gilham/Getty Images ...

Trompita, a 61-year-old Asian elephant, noticed an antelope stuck in that same body of water. She sounded an SOS from her trunk to get the attention of a nearby animal caretaker.

Here's a photo that made the rounds on the Internet and here's a video of a baby elephant learning how to suck its trunk. Interestingly enough, baby elephants reportedly can't control their trunks.