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Your morning adorable: Working for peanuts

March 14, 2009 |  8:48 am

Elephant trunk

An elephant resident of France's Maubeuge Zoo accepts a treat from a keeper.  It's estimated that elephants' trunks contain about 40,000 individual muscles! 

--Lindsay Barnett

Photo: Francois Lo Presti / AFP/Getty Images


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I don't know if I'd describe this photo as cute. It reminds me of the tear-jerking scene from Dumbo when Dumbo's mother rocks him from inside her cage. Heartwrenching.



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