Why can an adult elephant hook a tree with its nose?

Because the structure of the elephant's nose is really complicated, a * * * has 40,000 muscles, and many complicated movements can be completed by different forms of muscles. Elephant is the largest terrestrial herbivore, and the largest African elephant in existence can reach five or six tons. The nose is one of the main tools for elephants to eat. It can bend branches, roll up smaller food pieces like dates, and suck water from the pond and spit it into their mouths to drink water. The nose length of an ordinary adult Asian elephant can reach1.4m, while that of an African elephant can reach1.4m due to its large size.

The elephant's nose can accomplish such complicated movements, thanks to the special structure of its muscles. Elephant's nose muscles are layered, horizontal, vertical and oblique, with about 40 thousand muscles. According to the activity of different levels and muscles, the activity of elephant nose is very flexible. This figure is like a person's facial muscles. Thanks to the development of facial muscles, human beings can present the most biological expression changes. In contrast, the human body has more than 600 muscles, most of which are covered on the surface of bones.

The elephant's nose has no bones, which is a bit like a sponge. From the perspective of muscle structure and the flexibility of elephant's nose, the flexible movement of nose depends on the mutual cooperation between different muscles at different levels, which can enable elephants to complete some complex movements. Without the support of bones, the weight of heavy objects that the nose can bear is limited, unlike the weight of objects that they can bear, it can support hundreds of kilograms of objects. Compared with the limbs that support tons of weight, the strength of the nose is much weaker.

It is true that in the animal world, it is often seen to pull trees with their noses, but they are usually very thin trees or just broken branches. Such a tree has a short growth time and its roots are not very developed. So can humans (saplings with thick pencils are easy to pull). If a tree is tall and thick, the space for its roots to extend even exceeds the space for its crown to extend, and the trunk of its roots is thicker and tougher. Elephants can't do it, so they can only reach high places with their noses.