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    Does an elephant have bones in its trunk?

    Question #129198. Asked by Creedy. (Jan 28 13 12:18 AM)


    vratar

    		I looked this up in several places, and it looks like the answer is no, elephants have no bones in their trunks. Not even a nasal bone.

    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070504121508AA4uRzx

    http://www.upali.ch/trunk_en.html



    Jan 28 13, 12:47 AM
    Lottie1001

    		An elephant's trunk is composed of six major muscle groups subdivided into 100,000 muscle units.

    http://elephant.elehost.com/About_Elephants/Anatomy/The_Trunk/the_trunk.html

    Jan 28 13, 5:10 AM
    Creedy

    		Thank you :)

    Jan 28 13, 8:24 PM

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