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Elephant Using Trunk to Blow Food

Here’s a video of the most amazing thing I saw at the Oregon Zoo last weekend. One of the elephants was using its trunk to blow crumbs of hay together and make an easily graspable pile!

Here’s another example from elephants in Japan:

Seems like this was a pretty novel discovery (!?) as we see findings about it published in the scientific journal, Animal Cognition in 2015.