Imagine a creature as big as a truck, with a nose as long as its legs that functions as siphon, snorkel, squirt-gun, trumpet, and feed tool powerful enough to rip branches from trees but delicate enough to pick up a pea. Elephants are mixed feeders, eating grass when they can get it but also browsing all kinds of trees, bushes, reeds, fruit, and bark. Elephants are rare outside reserves because of extensive hunting for tusks.