Long’uro the baby elephant lost his trunk in a vicious attack. He’s now thriving in the best way.

Long'uro the baby elephant lost his trunk in a vicious hyena attack, but after being rescued and nursed to health, he's ...
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Study unlocks the secrets of the whiskers on an elephant's trunk

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: An Asian elephant dries off with some sand in his enclosure at the zoo in Karlsruhe July 7, 2011. REUTERS/Alex ...
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Secret to an elephant’s 'supercharged' sense of touch revealed

The whiskers on an elephant's trunk are key to its "amazing" sense of touch, reveals new research. The 1,000 hairs that cover the trunk have unusual properties that highlight where contact happens ...
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There’s a wrinkle — or many — in the story behind an elephant’s trunk

Why is the elephant trunk so wrinkly? It sounds like the start of one of Aesop’s fables. But in a new study in the journal Royal Society Open Science, researchers offer up some answers. This all ...
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Elephant trunk whiskers exhibit material intelligence, revealing the secret behind an amazing sense of touch

A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), reveals the secret to the ...