An elephant’s trunk is a wonder of evolution. Gentle, yet dextrous, it can pick up solid items, help them communicate, and be a helpful showering...
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An elephant’s trunk is a wonder of evolution. Gentle, yet dextrous, it can pick up solid items, help them communicate, and be a helpful showering tool. Inside, 1,000 whiskers give the large animals a very strong sense of touch to compensate for poor eyesight and thick skin. They are also more like a cat’s whiskers and have a design that engineers consider to be “intelligent,” according to a study published today in the journal Science. To examine how the elephant trunk whiskers work, engineers from Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, neuroscientists from Humboldt University of Berlin, and materials scientists at the University of Stuttgart in Germany joined forces. They hoped to...
An elephant’s trunk is a wonder of evolution. Gentle, yet dextrous, it can pick up solid items, help them communicate, and be a helpful showering...
There are about 1,000 tiny hairs on an elephant’s rugged trunk, all designed to help the animal feel, a new study found. ......
There are about 1,000 tiny hairs on an elephant’s rugged trunk, all designed to help the animal feel, a new study found. ......
An elephant's trunk is a marvelous thing, flexible enough to bend and stretch as it forages for food, but also stiff enough to grasp and maneuver even...
An elephant's trunk is a marvelous thing, flexible enough to bend and stretch as it forages for food, but also stiff enough to grasp and maneuver even...
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