Elephants drink through their trunks: myth or truth?

9/25/2017

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animals Story: Elephants drink through their trunks: myth or truth?

Have you heard that elephants drink water through their trunks? We heard it and decided to find out whether it's true or not. Check out the salvation for this intriguing question!

Elephants are a mystery. So many things are performed with the help of their incredibly long trunks.

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Elephants get food using their trunks. This is quite obvious that losing its trunk equals a death sentence for an elephant.

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Can an elephant drink through its trunk? No, it can't. Like people can not drink through their noses. Another thing is, elephants can drink with the help of their trunks. They grab some water (it can hold about 5-6 liters of liquid) and deliver it to their mouths.

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Thus they can even wash themselves.

An interesting fact: elephants can cross waters walking at the bottom and setting the tip of their trunks above the water in order to breathe.

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223 Comments

Kathleen Harris

Elephants are my favorite animals. I think they are very intelligent. Their matriarchal societies are to be admired. I don't believe they feud like human, female relatives do. However, my heart goes out to the juvenile males rejected by the female herd.

Harriette Kligman

Elephants are amazing. They have feelings, can express both joy and sadness, and can remember things for a long time

Kay Hails

Seen many elephants doing all these things during my years in Africa ,they also mourn their dead

kgreathouse

All animals are awesome.. Worst one on the planet is humans..

Dawn Schramm

Saw many of these fascinating animals, close enough to touch on trip to the Serengeti.

werma

I had the good fortune of riding an elephant during a safari.

lmoores

Elephants 🐘 are amazing animals.

Betty Wiendels

edward goodnow, They are sickening monsters! Very selfish and self centred! The elephants are amazingly intelligent and emotional animals!! They also protect their babies and cry over dead loved ones.

Betty Wiendels

Sharran Dunseath, Heartbreaking 💔!!

Betty Wiendels

Adrienne Anderson, I fully agree!! Poachers are EVIL!

Betty Wiendels

My ex Ian’s sister Karyn collected statues of elephants and stuffed elephants. She is now almost 72 if still alive.

Peter Thomas

Beautiful creatures! I sponsor elephants through WWF

Johnny Rock

I wanted more. Elephants are fantastic animals.

Shashikant Ghatpande

Thanks for the information.

Malai Allan

Elephants are the National Animal of Thailand

Paloma Grohl

I love elephants 🐘 They can paint too ☺️

Steve Tingle

They can also swim through deep water if necessary, in fact have been mistaken for 'monsters' as all that can be seen is the tip of the trunk and the bumps of the head and body looking like a serpent with head and two loops.

Geeta Menon

Kay Hails, That's true. They are one of only a handful of animals that have an awareness of death.

vasily tchaikovsky

Elephants smart and intelligent animals,everybody like tham and they live by human life

Carol Budman Evans

I did know that elephants drink by using their trunk to deliver their mouths. I can understand how the elephants travel through water by using their trunks like scuba equipment .Makes some sense.