why do elephants have trunks'?
 Elephant's trunk helps them to pull down a mighty tree or gently take a peanut from a child’s hand, smells, drinks, and feeds itself with its trunk, to give themselves showers, feel the shape of objects with their trunks, after bathing, the elephant will usually use its trunk to blow dust onto its body, elephants can traverse rivers totally submerged by trunk, uses trunk for many purposes, particularly breathing, lifting water, and grasping objects. 