In the study, researchers, who refer to this as ‘trunkedness’, explain that the whiskers on an elephant’s mouth will be worn-down on the side most frequently used by the trunk to deliver food.

An elephant’s trunk has eight major muscles on either side and 150,000 muscle bundles in all. It is so strong that it can push down trees and lift a whopping 700,000 pounds. Its got the moves ...

The elephant trunk is very different from any of the limbs we have on our human body. It sits above the mouth, like where our nose sits, but it's used as a facial limb to pick things up like food ...

In the study, researchers, who refer to this as ‘trunkedness’, explain that the whiskers on an elephant’s mouth will be worn-down on the side most frequently used by the trunk to deliver food.

According to the Royal Society, all mammals have facial whiskers, with the exception of great apes and humans. Now, if that wasn’t big enough news in itself (just me?), it turns out that elephants ...