What an Elephant's Brain Reveals About Its Trunk
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Elephants have tens of thousands of facial neurons, more than any other land mammal
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How an elephant's trunk manipulates air to eat and drink
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How the elephant got its trunk - Discover Wildlife
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Elephants Use Their Trunks to Ace Intelligence Tests
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The nerve bundle in an elephant's trunk found to be one of the
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Elephants: Trunk may be one of most sensitive body parts of any
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Drawing of the dorsal view of the African elephant brain showing
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Elephants' Unique Brain Structures Hint About Their Mental Abilities
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Elephants: Trunk may be one of most sensitive body parts of any
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Dense reconstruction of elephant trunk musculature - ScienceDirect
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