The elephant also uses it's trunk to smell things. The elephant used it's trunk to drink with. They have a rough oval-shaped head. The elephant's skin is mostly gray but it has grayish-brownish colours in some parts. The body is covered in thin hair and in some places there isn't any.
Elephants have tusks and modified incisors of the upper jaw.
They grow continually and it's hollow at the base. The elephant uses it's tusks to strip the bark off trees, to crush animals and to dig. Besides the tusks the elephant has one or maybe two molar teeth on either side of each jaw. While one of the molars is being worn it is taking place of another one. During the elephants life time this may be replaced up to six times.