Assertion: elephant | /r/CapableOf | use their trunks
Facets:
value: to suck up water
type: PURPOSE
value: as a snorkel
type: MANNER
value: for dusting
type: PURPOSE
value: for breathing
type: PURPOSE
value: to pick up objects
type: PURPOSE
value: to get food
type: PURPOSE
value: for many things
type: PURPOSE
value: for lifting
type: PURPOSE
value: in other ways
type: MANNER
value: as a hand
type: MANNER
value: usually
type: TEMPORAL
value: to knock over a tree
type: PURPOSE
value: for washing
type: PURPOSE
value: after bathing
type: TEMPORAL
value: for sound production
type: PURPOSE
value: for grasping
type: PURPOSE
value: for pinching
type: PURPOSE
value: for feeding
type: PURPOSE
value: for communication
type: PURPOSE
value: to pluck at leaves
type: PURPOSE
value: in the drinking process
type: TEMPORAL
value: generally
type: MANNER
value: for touching
type: PURPOSE
value: to breathe like a snorkel
type: PURPOSE
value: for smelling
type: PURPOSE
value: to rip a limb
type: PURPOSE
value: to make loud
type: PURPOSE
value: for detecting
type: PURPOSE
value: to feed itself
type: PURPOSE
value: like arms
type: MANNER
value: to prod sick elephants
type: PURPOSE
value: to massage head
type: PURPOSE
value: for offense
type: PURPOSE
value: for defense
type: PURPOSE
value: for many tasks
type: PURPOSE
value: as a funnel
type: MANNER
value: for more than mere drinking
type: PURPOSE
value: to know shape
type: PURPOSE
value: for water storage
type: PURPOSE
value: for defence
type: PURPOSE
value: for offence
type: PURPOSE
value: to feed themselves
type: PURPOSE
value: to play fight
type: PURPOSE
value: for the artistic purposes
type: PURPOSE
value: to grasp an entire tree branch
type: PURPOSE
value: to know the size
type: PURPOSE
value: in order to protect their skin
type: PURPOSE
value: to spray dirt
type: PURPOSE
value: to greet each other
type: PURPOSE
value: to breathe underwater
type: PURPOSE
value: to greet one another
type: PURPOSE
value: by holding it
type: MANNER
value: to lift him
type: PURPOSE
value: right away
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Elephants can’t use their trunks right away.
text: An elephant uses its trunk to lift food and suck up water then pour it into its mouth.
text: Elephants can swim – they use their trunk to breathe like a snorkel in deep water.
text: Subscribe today Elephants use the trunk like a hand in other ways as well.
text: Elephants are herbivores who eat a wide range of plant-based foods, using their tusks and trunks to help them eat and drink.
text: The herdsman later told them that when he could not stand up, the elephant used her trunk to lift him under the shade of a tree.
text: In addition to smelling, trumpeting, drinking and grabbing things, Elephants can use their trunks to breathe (like a snorkel) in deep water.
text: Elephants use their trunks to help them lift up food, and they also use them to suck up water and pour it into their mouth.
text: For example, they use their trunks to greet one another, either by holding it out high or by inserting the end of their trunk into another elephant's mouth.
text: Elephants can use their trunks to breathe underwater
text: They use their trunks to pick up objects, trumpet warnings, greet other elephants, or suck up water for drinking or bathing, among other uses.
text: Elephants use their trunks for many purposes including smelling, breathing and filling it up with water for pouring in their mouths for drinking.
text: They also use their trunks to spray water and dirt over their body in order to protect their skin from insect bites and sun exposure.
text: They even use their trunks as snorkels when crossing deep rivers or lakes.
text: Elephants that live in captivity can use their trunks for the artistic purposes.
text: However, elephants do use their trunks to play fight which can be quite interesting to observe.
text: Elephants also use their trunks to draw up cool water and squirt it over their backs and heads to wet the skin most exposed to the sunlight.
text: Elephants use their trunks to suck up water, but they don’t drink through it like a straw.
text: Elephants use their trunks to suck up water, but they don’t drink through it like a straw.
text: Truth: While elephants use their trunks in the drinking process, they don't drink through it.
text: While elephants use their trunks in the drinking process, they don't drink through it.
text: Elephants use their trunks to take up water and squirt it into their mouths.
text: While feeding, elephants use their trunks to pluck at leaves and their tusks to tear at branches, which can cause enormous damage to foliage.
text: Elephants also use their trunks to drink, but the water doesn’t go all the way up the nose like a straw; instead, the elephant sucks water only part way up the trunk, curls it toward its mouth, tilts its head up, and lets the water from the trunk pour in.
text: Elephants use their trunks to feed themselves, ripping grass or leaves from trees.
text: They also use their trunks to drink, sucking water part way up their trunks and squirting it into their mouths.
text: Elephants use their trunks for breathing, watering, feeding, touching, dusting, sound production and communication, washing, pinching, grasping, defence and offence.
text: Elephants will playfully wrestle with each other using their trunks, but generally use their trunks only for gesturing when fighting.
text: Elephants will playfully wrestle with each other using their trunks, but generally use their trunks only for gesturing when fighting.
text: Elephants use their trunks for more than mere drinking and lifting.
text: Elephants use their trunks for many tasks, including picking up objects, pouring water into its mouth, breathing under water and pushing over trees.
text: Elephants also use their trunks to trumpet.
text: Elephants also use their trunks as snorkels when they wade in deep water.
text: Elephants also use their trunks to help lift or nudge an elephant calf over an obstacle, to rescue a fellow elephant stuck in mud, or to gently raise a newborn elephant to its feet.
text: Elephants use their trunks for many things that are essential to their survival including grabbing food, drinking water, and breathing so it would die without a trunk.
text: Elephants use their trunks to hug, caress and comfort other elephants — and baby elephants even suck their trunks like a human baby sucks a thumb.
text: While feeding, elephants use their trunks to pluck at leaves and their tusks to tear at branches, which can cause enormous damage to foliage.
text: Elephants use their trunks to breathe when they swim in deep waters.
text: Elephants use their trunks for breathing, watering, feeding, touching, dusting, sound production and communication, washing, pinching, grasping, defense and offense.
text: Elephants will playfully wrestle with each other using their trunks, but generally use their trunks only for gesturing when fighting.
text: Elephants will playfully wrestle with each other using their trunks, but generally use their trunks only for gesturing when fighting.
text: Elephants use their trunks to massage the weak elephant's shoulders and head.
text: They also use their trunks to prod sick elephants to their feet, and will attempt to use their bodies to support that of an injured or sick elephant.
text: Elephants show a remarkable ability to use tools, using their trunks like arms.
text: When underwater, the elephant uses its trunk as a snorkel.
text: After bathing, the elephant will usually use its trunk to blow dust onto its body and this dries into a protective crust.
text: The elephant uses its trunk to place food into its mouth, collect food from high places, drink water, spray itself with water and dust to keep cool, and test objects for size, weight and temperature.
text: An elephant uses its trunk to pick up and throw objects, rub an itchy eye or ear, fills it with water and then pours it into its mouth to drink and also as a snorkel when swimming under water.
text: Most animals use their nose solely for breathing, however, the elephant also uses its trunk for water storage and for drawing in mud and dust to spray over themselves to clean or cool down.
text: When underwater, an elephant can use its trunk as a snorkel.
text: After bathing, the elephant will usually use its trunk to blow dust onto its body and this dries into a protective crust.
text: An elephant also uses its trunk to breathe, make noises, caress its young.
text: An elephant can use its trunk to knock over a tree, or to pick up a single piece of hay.
text: An elephant can use its trunk to knock over a tree, or to pick up a single piece of hay.
text: An elephant uses its trunk to greet each other and play.
text: An elephant uses its trunk to suck up water and blow the water into its mouth or onto its body for bathing and cooling purposes.
text: Water and trunk: To drink its 9 litres of water at a time, the elephant uses its trunk which weighs 113 kilograms.
text: Elephants can also use its trunk to grasp an entire tree branch and pull it down to its mouth and to yank up clumps of grasses and shove the greenery into their mouths.
text: If threatened, an elephant will also use its trunk to make loud trumpeting noises as a warning.
text: An elephant can use its trunk to rip a limb from a tree or to pick up a single blade of grass.
text: An elephant can also use its trunk as a hand to feed itself clumps of grass, hay, fruit, or other favorite plant foods.
text: An elephant uses its trunk to smell and breathe, just like you use your nose, but an elephant can also use its trunk as a snorkel when it's under water.
text: An elephant uses its trunk to smell and breathe, just like you use your nose, but an elephant can also use its trunk as a snorkel when it's under water.
text: The elephant uses its trunk to lift heavy things, eat, breathe, drink, and spray water, but it can also make smaller movements like a hand.
text: The elephant uses its trunk to know the size, shape, and temperature of objects.
text: An elephant uses its trunk to grab objects such as food.
text: Elephants use their trunk for smelling, breathing, detecting vibrations, caressing their young, sucking up water, and grasping objects.
text: Useful for other tasks like eating, picking up objects, and drinking water, elephants can also use their trunk as a snorkel for breathing while swimming completely submerged.
text: If they are cooling themselves in the water, elephants will use their trunk as a snorkel.
text: Elephants also use their trunk like we use our hands: to grab, hold, pick up, reach, touch, pull, push, and throw.
text: This helps elephants use their trunk in many different ways.
text: Elephants use their trunk to get food and put in their mouth.
text: Elephants use their trunk to suck up water after they suck up the water, they squirt the water in their mouth.
text: Elephants also use their trunk to suck up water and spray it over their body to get clean.
text: Elephants use their trunk to smell objects in front of them.
text: Elephants use their trunk like we use our hands: to grab, hold, pick up, reach, touch, pull, push, and throw.
text: It probably helps that they use their trunk as a snorkel.
text: Instead, they use the trunk to scoop water into their mouths.
text: Instead, they use the trunk to scoop water into their mouths.
text: She explains to National Geographic that when an elephant feels uneasy, or is ambivalent about what to do next, he or she may use the trunk in a “touch-face” gesture, a “self-directed touching of the face, mouth, ear, trunk, tusk, or temporal gland, apparently to reassure and self-soothe.
text: It would be easy to be fooled into thinking that elephants drank through their trunks; in fact they use the trunk as a funnel to collect water, but then pour it into their mouth.