{"id":32710,"date":"2015-08-12T11:41:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T09:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/32710\/five-incredible-things-elephants-do-with-their-trunks\/"},"modified":"2015-08-12T14:56:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T12:56:18","slug":"five-incredible-things-elephants-do-with-their-trunks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/08\/12\/five-incredible-things-elephants-do-with-their-trunks\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Incredible Things Elephants Do With Their Trunks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1. Elephants use their trunks to say hello\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just like a handshake or a hug they intertwine\u00a0their trunks when meeting to show affection or acceptance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. To smell things that are far away\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elephants are great at sniffing things out, and they can even smell water 19 km away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Snorkel through deep water<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elephants are great swimmers and their built-in snorkel makes it easy for them to cross deep rivers. All they do is let the tips of their trunks out to breathe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Use it as a tool or weapon\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The trunk can beat away threats or use it to search for food on the ground<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. \u00a0To make each other feel better\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They use their trunks to pat and embrace in times of distress.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/08\/Eleohant.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75908\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2015\/08\/Eleohant.gif\" alt=\"Eleohant\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowing more about elephants this World Elephant Day is just as important as protecting them.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7663,"featured_media":32722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central ","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}