T h e   M a m m o t h   F a u n a .  The trunk.   The mammoths trunk, as well as at other elephants, is a long nose grown together with the upper lip. It consists of a set of longitudinal and ring muscles covered with transversal tucks of a thick skin. Due to them the trunk can be contracted and stretched, and also twisted as snake. There are a very sensitive folds – sprouts on it’s end. As against elephants the mammoth trunk was covered with a wool and it’s end sprouts were longer. The trunk substituted to a mammoth for a hand, it could do the most diverse movements: to lift from ground different subjects, to pinch a grass and leaves, to tear off bark, to grasp and to curve small trees. A mammoth had a very short neck, and he could not lower it up to ground to pull out a grass. Without a trunk a mammoths could not to eat. A mammoth had drunk with the help of a trunk too. He gathered in a nose holes a water (up to 10 liters for once), and then poured out it in a mouth.