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.) ...

The tough upper surface of an elephant’s trunk is stretchier than the wrinkled skin underneath, a new study finds. A. Schulz, Adam Thompson/Zoo Atlanta By Meghan Rosen July 18, 2022 at 3:00 pm ...

For many Indians, he is the reincarnation of Lord Ganesha - the elephant God known as the 'Lord of Obstacles' and they pay him money in respect. However Kanai doesn’t have a trunk like an elephant.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

“So the elephant trunk is actually like a trunk.” Kelly with larger and smaller rutabaga cubes. Schulz et al., Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2021 ...

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 ...