People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1895 — About Elephants’ Tongues. [ARTICLE]

About Elephants’ Tongues.

"Only few of the many people who have thrown peanuts in* > the ele- >: ant s mouths,” said Head Keeper danley of the Zoological gardens to a °:.iladelpl.ia Record ma,;, "have no- .! ed that the tongue is hung at both ads. A tongue hung in the middle Is human complaint, but elephants ave a monopoly on those l.ung at bothnds. The trunk suffices to put the ood just where it ought to be, and the ongue simply keeps it moving from de to side over the grinders. When a ■a nut gets stuck on the elephant'.* • ueJ.e r ft in the middle, like a <>ving cat«jp..Ur. and the shell cracks .gainst the r.tof of the mouth, to then disappear down a capacious throat”