An elephant's prehensile penis is like a second trunk

Ever since I was a little kid, my favorite animal has been the elephant. I still have my stuffed elephant I got when I was two years old, and this mug that my mother glazed in a ceramics class when I was three:

I thought I knew a thing or two about elephants, but it was only today that I learned elephants have prehensile penises. — Read the rest