The elephant's trunk has long been studied by engineers seeking to understand how it performs both powerful and delicate ...
An elephant’s trunk can haul a felled log across a clearing and, moments later, ...
An elephant's trunk is both strong and capable of extremely fine motor movements. With this muscular, boneless structure, an ...
A new study shows how elephant trunk skin balances strength and sensitivity, offering clues that could help engineers build ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Looks like someone is growing up! A video of baby elephant learning how to use her trunk is the absolute cutest. She’s just ...
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 ...
Elephants use their trunks for a long list of reasons: eating, drinking, smelling, socializing. But trunks have about 40,000 individual muscles — and babies have to learn to use them. “Watching baby ...
A recent study investigated the musculature of the elephant and found that the trunk is a complex mesh of interwoven muscle and has an immense number of parts. The study was published on September 26, ...