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ELI5: Why are humans noses pointed down where nearly ever other animal's nose is pointed forward?

*every not ever.
gpt
There's a lot of exceptions to noses-pointing-forward. Elephants, tapirs, aardvarks, anteaters, many fish, and so on. 

But those that have noses that do point forward, which includes most herbivores and omnivores that graze, usually walk on all fours, not on two legs, and tilt their heads toward their food by bending their neck, not lifting it to their face. This means their forward-facing nose is closest to their potential food.

It's impractical for humans to bend down and sniff something on the ground so we evolved the alternate strategy of bringing our potential food to our face using our hands instead, placing our nostrils closest to our mouths by bending our noses down.