Elephants don't have hands. It's true. I'm not even sure an elephant can push something with one of its legs...it may not have the required balance. But when one elephant, hanging out with a friend elephant on the airstrip at Xigera Camp in Botswana, wanted some more fruit from the palm tree to eat, it truly needed to use its head to find a solution.
"Let's wait here a minute," our safari guide said. "I think I know what that elephant is about to do."
And the elephant did it...it backed away from the tree, then raised its enormous trunk, laying it vertically flat along the palm tree's bark. Leaning its trunk against the bark, it took one step backward and then lunged its head forward, pushing against the bark and shaking the tree back and forth. More fruit fell from its tremendous height up on the tree and the elephants started up their next round of snacking.
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