這是《動物王國大探險展》草原生態區的大象導覽。在此聆聽這隻陸地最大型的動物，如何以鼻為手。
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This is the elephant stop in the grassland gallery of the Animal Kingdom Grand Adventure Exhibition. Listen here to how the largest animal on land uses its trunk as a hand.
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眼前正在擺動鼻子的大象，來自非洲草原，是陸地最大型的動物。
大象長長的鼻子讓人印象深刻，象鼻沒有骨骼，只有一條肌肉，卻含有近九萬條肌束，不只能舉起兩百公斤重的樹幹，也能靈巧地撿起一粒花生，還能用超強吸力將食物吸進鼻腔。更有趣的是，就像人類有慣用手，大象也有慣用鼻。從鼻子皮膚上的皺摺就能判斷牠是左撇子還是右撇子，皺褶深的那一邊就是牠的慣用方向。
大象的大耳朵不只可以敏銳捕捉聲音，還能聽到人類完全聽不到的「次聲波」，更兼具了散熱功能。而肥厚的腳掌如同精密的音響接收器，能捕捉地底傳來的微弱震動，就像立體聲雷達一樣，接收遠在好幾公里外同伴傳來的警報或求偶信號。
大象是草原上溫柔的守護巨獸。然而，面對猖獗的盜獵與棲地破碎化，這群巨大的身影正加速消失，迫切需要人類伸出援手，共同守護牠們的家園。
The elephant before you, swinging its trunk, comes from the African grassland. It is the largest animal on land.
That long nose stays with you. The trunk has no bone, only a single muscle, yet it holds nearly ninety thousand bundles of fiber. It can lift a tree trunk weighing two hundred kilograms, pick up a single peanut with care, and with huge suction draw food into the nasal cavity. More interesting still: as humans have a dominant hand, elephants have a dominant trunk. From the folds in the skin of the trunk you can tell whether it is left- or right-sided; the side with the deeper folds is the one it prefers.
The great ears not only catch sound with keenness; they can hear infrasound wholly beyond the human ear, and they also shed heat. The thick pads of the feet are like a precise audio receiver, catching faint tremors from under the ground, like a stereo radar, taking in an alarm or a call to mate from companions several kilometers away.
The elephant is a gentle guardian giant of the grassland. Yet, facing rampant poaching and the breaking of habitat, these huge shapes are vanishing faster, and they urgently need a human hand, to guard their home together.