An elephant’s trunk can be used for feats of strength like smacking away potential predators, but can also be used to pluck the smallest bits of vegetation from the ground. Now, new research is ...

Whiskers on an elephant’s trunk may help it feel and balance objects – study Scientists say their research is the first detailed study of elephant whisker anatomy.

SEOUL, South Korea – An elephant in a South Korean zoo is using his trunk to pick up not only food, but also human vocabulary. An international team of scientists confirmed Friday what the ...

Life Elephant’s trunk may be one of most sensitive body parts of any animal The bundle of nerves that controls the elephant’s trunk contains 400,000 neurons – a lot more than we expected ...

Trunk muscles form what a scientist would call a muscular hydrostat, a boneless tube of muscles that easily changes shape. (A trunk has some 46,000 muscles; the human body has 600 to 700.) ...

Understanding how elephants use their trunk Date: August 23, 2021 Source: Université de Genève Summary: The elephant proboscis (trunk) exhibits an extraordinary kinematic versatility as it can ...

The elephant has a secret hiding right on its nose. Its famous trunk, full of muscle and devoid of bone, can move in a virtually infinite number of directions and is capable of performing an array ...

The thick, immobile whiskers on an elephant’s trunk may help it to feel and balance objects even though they cannot twitch in the way that many other mammals’ whiskers do, a study suggests ...