In nascent development is a robotic arm that flexes like an elephant trunk to glide down the throat for scarless repairs of the upper airways.

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It hung limply by my side like an elephant's trunk.

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Further down we have mythical beasts with the trunk of an elephant, the head of an ox, and the feet of a sheep.

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This aquatic period could explain the evolution of the elephant's most characteristic feature its trunk.

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While Koshik was capable of producing these more typical elephant noises, he needed the help of his trunk to morph these into something far more human.

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One farmer says he watched an elephant pause at the fence and then try to reverse through it holding his trunk up in the air to avoid the stink.

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