But in an elephant trunk, there are no bones to pull ... Narrator: What if you could use your nose to snorkel, or uproot a small tree, or smell water from several miles away?

A small elephant approached a waterhole in the Sabi Sand Nature Reserve in South Africa and got too close to a lapwing. But the tiny bird suddenly became very territorial with the curious calf.

Thomas, Ontario. After the show, Jumbo and a small elephant called Tom Thumb were being loaded into a circus boxcar when an unscheduled freight train came hurtling down the tracks towards them.