How does one boneless organ uproot a tree one minute and pick up a single blade of grass the next? An elephant does both with the same trunk, and there is no skeleton inside it doing the work. No bones, no joints, no cartilage. The answer is muscle, and a lot of it. That mix [...] The post An elephant’s trunk has no bones but contains roughly 90,000 muscle units, giving it enough strength to move heavy objects while still allowing it to perform remarkably delicate movements appeared first on Space Daily .
An elephant’s trunk has no bones but contains roughly 90,000 muscle units, giving it enough strength to move heavy objects while still allowing it to perform remarkably delicate movements
