The wrinkles on the trunks of elephants are not a result of aging. They develop in utero. And scientists have now discovered it is possible to determine an elephant’s “trunkedness” (kind of like being right- or left-handed) by analyzing them. Host Carolyn Beeler finds out more about elephant trunk wrinkles from Lena Kauffmann, one of the authors of a new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science.
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