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An elephant's trunk is actually its nose and upper lip stuck together, and it can smell, breathe, drink, and even pick up a tiny peanut!

What does an elephant mostly use its long trunk for?

Smelling, breathing, drinking, and grabbing food
An elephant's trunk has no bones at all, just thousands of muscles, so it can curl, stretch, and grip almost anything. Elephants even use their trunks like a straw to suck up water and then squirt it into their mouths!

An elephant mostly uses its long trunk for smelling, breathing, drinking, and grabbing food, since the trunk is really its nose and upper lip fused together into one incredibly flexible tool. Packed with thousands of muscles and no bones at all, it can curl tightly around a tree branch or gently pick up something as small as a single peanut.

Trumpeting is just one small use among many, not the trunk's main purpose, and elephants can swim using their whole bodies, not only their trunks, so neither of those narrow answers captures everything the trunk really does.

Elephants often use their trunks like a built-in straw, sucking up water and then curling the trunk toward their mouths to squirt the water in for a drink.

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