Fun Facts about Elephant Trunks! 

It has a phenomenal reach!

Imagine how awkward it would be for an elephant to squat down for its mouth to reach water, or how long its neck would have to be to reach leaves? The trunk takes care of all of this – and in fact can reach branches 20 feet high. Think of the selfies it could take, no selfie stick required.

It has a built-in snorkel

That great reach makes the elephant unique in another category as well – it is the only animals that can effectively snorkel on its own. By extending the trunk out of the water, elephants can cross bodies of water that would prove too deep for other less-equipped animals.

It possesses a phenomenal sense of smell

The upper nasal cavities have chemical and olfactory sensors in the form of millions of receptor cells. So sensitive is an elephant’s trunk that is more capable than a bloodhound's nose and is said to be able to smell water from several miles away.

Learn more about elephant trunks here.

Bears can sleep more than 100 days without eating or drinking! They do this to survive the winter months when food is hard to find and it's really cold! 

https://www.scienceworld.ca/stories/do-bears-actually-hibernate/

"Asian weaver ants can carry 500mg – about 100 times their body weight. At their tiny scale though, carrying heavy objects is less about muscle strength and more about grip.

Ants have self-cleaning sticky pads on their feet and can vary the size of the contact patch on the ground so they aren’t overbalanced by their load, even when upside-down!" - BBC 

SUPERPOWER: JUMPING

Flea (Siphonaptera)

Boing! Annoyingly, fleas are the most super-powered of the super jumpers. Their explosive power comes from a coil of energy-storing protein that acts somewhat like a spring. Located in the flea’s thorax, the spring transfers energy down through the flea’s legs, until it reaches and compresses the bug’s toes. Then, boom goes the flea, sometimes traveling roughly 200 times its body length.

Other super jumpers include kangaroo rats (able to spring a distance 45 times their body length), jumping spiders (100 times their body length), and tree frogs (150 times).