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4 things you didn't know about an elephant's trunk

A baby elephant getting used to its trunk - photo by Rebecca Phillips

The Elephant trunk has forty thousand muscles divided into 150 000 units.

It can lift 350 kilograms.

Its sense of smell is four times more sensitive than that of a bloodhound.

It can smell water many kilometers away.

Trying out the moves on little brother  - photo by Rebecca Phillips

And back the other way  - photo by Rebecca Phillips

Now we are really in trouble!  - photo by Rebecca Phillips

Researched and written by the guides at Lake Manze camp, Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania

All photos by Rebecca Phillips at Mdonya Old River camp in Ruaha National Park, Tanzania

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