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Elephants have special lung tissue which allows them to "snorkel" underwater, according to a US scientist.
Dr John West found African elephants to have denser tissue than other mammals around their lungs which enabled them to breathe while submerged in a lake, apart from the tips of their trunks.
He said the special tissue meant they could withstand the pressure of being underwater.
But a UK expert doubted Dr West's theory and told BBC News Online the reason elephants could breathe while underwater was simply that they stuck their trunks up above the surface.
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