An elephant can lift a log, swing sand onto its back, and still pick up a peanut without crushing it. That mix of strength ...

That’s because the trunk is highly sensitive when it comes to sensing touch. Scientists have determined that the whiskers ...

“The hairs on the head, body, and tail of Asian elephants are stiff from base to tip, which is what we were expecting when we ...

An elephant's trunk is essential for most aspects of the animal's life, from interacting with its environment and with other ...

Embedded within the trunk are thousands of hair-like projections that embody one of the nature's most beautiful evidence of ...

Elephants are famous for their dexterous trunks, which the animals use to eat, drink, trumpet and breathe. If you take a ...

Elephants use about 1,000 specialized trunk whiskers with a built-in stiffness gradient to precisely sense contact.

A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max ...

There are about 1,000 tiny hairs on an elephant’s rugged trunk, all designed to help the animal feel, a new study found.

The whiskers of elephants and domestic cats have stiff bases that transition to soft rubber-like tips, different from the stiff whiskers of rats ...

Pachyderm whiskers are more flexible at the tip than the base, allowing elephants to complete delicate tasks with their incredibly strong trunks ...