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 ...

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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.

CREATE EPFL CC BY SA 4.0/Cover Images Researchers at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) have created a robot elephant that can go ten pin bowling. The twinkle-trunked bot does have a ...

The quick-thinking elephant extended its trunk into the water to create a place for the gazelle to climb out. Unfortunately, the first rescue attempt didn’t work.

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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. Although ...