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The elephant's trunk contains over 40,000 muscles, divided into as many as 150,000 individual units! Compare that to the human body, which contains a paltry 639 muscles, and you start to get an idea how intricate the appendage is. this means the body and the trunks muscles altogether is 190, 000muscles in the elephants body .
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∙ 12y agoThe amount of muscles an elephant has in its trunk varies on the size of the elephant, as an elephant grows larger it will build more muscles. The average elephant has approximately 40,000 muscles in its trunk.
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∙ 15y agoThere are 40,000 muscles and tendons in an elephant's trunk. This makes it very strong and flexible, allowing an elephant to pluck a delicate flower or lift a huge log. The trunk is used for touching, grasping, sucking, spraying, smelling, and striking.
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∙ 8y agoApproximately 394 different skeletal muscles set the elephant's body in motion. The elephants trunk however has 4000 muscles; this helps them to grab food and move things.
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∙ 7y agoAn elephant's trunk has more than 40,000 muscles in it.
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∙ 15y agoAccording to biologists, the elephant's trunk may have over forty thousand individual muscles in it.
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∙ 14y agoIt has 200 musuls
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∙ 11y agoAn elephant has two tusks.
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how many muscles in an elephant's ear
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Ivory is the tusk of an elephant.
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An elephant's tusk (one tusk) is worth about 700 dollars that's a common price for a solo tusk.
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Elephants have 2 tusks to protect themselves from enemy's
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For fashion
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Gray
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Elephant ivory is made from the tusk of an elephant.
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