An elephant can lift a log, swing sand onto its back, and still pick up a peanut without crushing it. That mix of strength and delicacy has always looked a little mysterious, especially because ...
Why is the elephant trunk so wrinkly? It sounds like the start of one of Aesop’s fables. But in a new study in the journal Royal Society Open Science, researchers offer up some answers. This all ...
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Elephant trunk whiskers exhibit material intelligence, revealing the secret behind an amazing sense of touch
A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), reveals the secret to the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A zookeeper feeling the whiskers that cover an Asian elephant’s trunk. To examine how the elephant trunk whiskers work, engineers ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Katherine Kuchenbecker (left) and Andrew Schulz (right) with a 3D-printed replica of an elephant's trunk hair, which helped the ...
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