Documentary Description
This programme looks at how evolution has overcome the challenges of being as big as an elephant. Elephants
feed on plants with very little nutritional value for 18 hours a day,
so evolution has given them vast intestines as well as huge teeth and
jaw muscles - and an equally gigantic head. But this produces another
problem: how to reach food on the ground. The solution is the
most versatile limb on the planet - the trunk. Capable of everything
from picking up berries to ripping a tree from the ground, the trunk is
a wonder of evolution. It's a Just So Story for the Darwinian age.
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