An elephant's brain is about four times the size of a human's brain. Among all animals ever having lived on earth, the brain of the elephant is the largest known. Experts claim that the trunk of an elephant contains 40,000 or more muscles.
Baby elephants have absolutely no idea what to do with their short trunks.
It takes them many months of learning by example before they can even use the trunk to squirt water into their mouths for a drink. No land dwelling creature on present day earth is large as the elephant. A big bull African can be up to 12 feet at the shoulder and weigh 12,000 pounds. The blue whale is the largest mammal known to inhabit the earth. It eats 8,000 pounds of krill daily.