Animals of Toyota Elephant Passage The most distinctive feature
of an elephant is its amazing multifunctional trunk. The trunk
enables the elephant to breathe, locate scents and drink. It
also allows the elephant to seize and manipulate objects from a
small twig to a large tree branch. The trunk is also used to
make sounds, greet or comfort other elephants, guide a calf and
even to snorkel when swimming. Greater one-horned Rhinoceros
Large mammals like rhinos, hippos and elephants live in hot
climates, and because of their size, can easily overheat.
Greater one-horned rhinos feed early and late in the day when
it’s cooler, but spend the hot midday in mud wallows and
wetlands. By submerging themselves until the heat passes, they
keep cool. The black on the front and back with white or gray in
the middle is a form of camouflage that breaks up the tapir’s
outline in the shadows of the forest. Their vulnerable babies
are born with stripes and spots to help them blend into the
dappled sunlight and leaf shadows of