Elephants can also drink up to 50 gallons of water a day about as much as a standard bathtub holds. The elephant’s ability to locate underground water and dig pools helps provide many other species with water during droughts. Their unique trunk acts as part nose to assist in breathing and detecting odours, and part hand to assist with manipulating objects, social interactions, eating, dust bathing, drawing-up water and releasing it into the mouth for drinking.
