Pictures of baby elephants can make us all feel soft inside. When you see it in some photos, or if you’re lucky, in real life, do you notice anything? They suck their trunks.

This interesting situation as cute as baby elephants There is an answer.

Same reason as human babies.

Just as babies suck their thumbs, elephants suck their trunks in the same way. Just like newborn humans, so do elephants with a strong sucking reflex they are born. Even the motivation behind why they are bad is the same.

Sucking means both eating and mothering. Their motivation in a nutshell We can also call it relaxation.

Sometimes they can also suck their bodies.

Sucking the trunk not only gives them a sense of relief, just like sucking the trunk, but it also teaches them how to use their trunk. While I suck their bodies how to control your muscles they experience.

They also suck on their bodies as a sophisticated scenting agent. Pheromones from other elephants, They can taste it by touching their body with urine or feces and then putting the body in their mouth to get a better smell.

Although trunk sucking usually occurs in young elephants, adult or older elephants may feel tense or tense. When you are sad, you suck your trunk is found.

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