I don't know but I wouldn't recommend trying it, at least not without wearing chain mail. Their skin is abrasive if you hug them and call them George and rub their skin backwards.

No. The human nose is mostly cartilage and it's hard.

It’s pretty soft compared to bone. I can push mine half way down to the skin.

The lower half of the nose is cartilage and is pretty soft. The upper half of the nose hard and is bone.

This is probably a stupid question, but if the upper half of the nose is bone, why does a human skull seem to always have a hole where the nose is?

That's where the cartilage was. You can find that hole in your own skull easily enough. There should be a small bump midway up your nasal ridge. That point is called the rhinion. Everything above it is laying on your skull. The parts of the nose below it cover your nasal cavity.

Because the bottom half isn't bone and the whole thing is hollow.

Anatomically correct skulls have an hole where the bottom of your nose is and the eyes are both smaller and higher up than you probably think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit_(anatomy)#/media/File:Ey...

Looking at yourself in a mirror, if you hold your finger over the top of your nose your eyes will see under your finger. Move your finger just low enough so you’re seeing over it and you should be touching the bottom of your nasal bone. At that point your nose should be more than a finger width froward from the bottom of your orbital socket which is where the hole in skulls starts in those skulls.

Look at a picture of a skull in profile. You'll see that there is half a nose, not no nose. That half of the nose that you can see is the bony part. The missing half is the cartilaginous part.

Why is there a hole? Because your nasal canal extends inside your skull to connect with the back of your throat. I guess I don't fully understand the question there.

Yeah you (well, I) can feel a distinct line between the bone and cartilage.

While you can’t hug them, see if your nearest aquarium has a touch tank experience. Usually they do those with rays/skates but you can also find them with Nurse sharks. Either way, you’ll literally get a feel for their composition.

From memory it’s more like the stiff parts of your nose running near/along the bone and unlike your ears in any way.

My guess is that, yeah, if you empty them of water