New photo Fears for baby elephant filmed walking in the wild without a trunk in South Africa

THERE are fears for a baby elephant spotted walking in the wild without a trunk.

The calf was filmed among a herd of adults in South Africa’s Kruger National Park missing its vital appendage.

There are fears for the survival of this baby elephant, spotted in the wild without a trunk

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Concerned safari don’t know whether it was a birth defect or if it had been mauled by a predator.

It may have been torn off by a crocodiles as it drank water from a lake, or by a lion.

There are also concerns it may have been caught in a hunter’s snare.

Elephants use their trunks for breathing, smelling, touching, grasping, and producing sound.

The calf walks in a herd in South Africa. It is not clear how the baby lost its trunk

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The amazing appendage breathing, smelling, touching, grasping, and producing sound

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A grown elephant trunk can lift up to 770lbs and contain 40,000 muscles.

Elephant trunks are stunted at birth, then rapidly elongate over the course of a few days.

The babies aren’t used to the new body part and often tread on and trip over it.

Trunks are fused to an elephant’s upper lip and nose.

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The animals use them to pick food from trees and low on the ground, and drink two gallons of water at a time with it.

An adult needs to eat between 200-600 pounds of food a day and drink up to 50 gallons of water a day.

Losing its trunk vastly reduces an elephants chances of surviving in the wild.

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