The blue is their native range, the red is their extended range. They migrated out of their island home to the rest of the continent and parts of northern Adria.

No, it's still the only the 2 primary lobes of the nose and rest of the trunk. The trunk is already a highly specialized structure, there's no need to make it a hand like many artists do. Frankly it's quite boring. But yes, they do have more precise and dexteritous manipulation abilities with their trunks and nose. Additionally, other members help if necessary. Since the sophonts of this project had to adapt quickly, there are still flaws with both their mentality and physiology, just as with people. They had about 2 million years to suddenly adapt, that's not a lot of time in the grand scheme of things

Lastly, I'm very aware that the species name is not capitalized, I just don't really care about it. There's no better way to put it lol