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An amazing feature of elephant trunks is that they can stretch up to 25 % of their length. This was discovered by scientists at Zoo Atlanta, where they monitored the trunk of one of the African elephants there. According to the scientists, such knowledge on the ability of the elephant’s trunk is crucial when planning for human-elephant conflict mitigation strategies, a key focal area for ERP. For instance, with this knowledge, communities are able to plant their crops further away from boundary fences of game reserves, thereby reducing the number of elephants enticed to break fences in order to reach planted crops on the other side of the fence.