Why is the elephant trunk so wrinkly ... them a big fruit like a melon or a mango,” says Brecht, “they wrap their trunk around the object. So our thinking is that the wrinkles serve for ...

Scientists had assumed that elephant trunk skin largely stretches the same ... That extra stretch probably helps elephants reach down and wrap their trunks around a log or a tree branch, while ...

The learning process for an elephant using its trunk looks very similar to a baby learning to use its hands. Baby elephants touch anything from other herd members to their surroundings with trunks.

There’s a Sherlock Holmes tale in here somewhere: A clever observer could check wrinkles and whiskers on an elephant trunk to catch a left-trunker pachyderm perp masquerading as a righty ...

Asian elephants have only one finger and tend to wrap their trunk around objects; hence their finger-tip is less prominently represented in their brain. “The elephant facial nucleus is one of a kind”, ...

What suddenly made long jaws such a liability? Well it looks like we can thank a changing climate for the evolution of the elephant’s trunk. Eons is available to stream on pbs.org and the free ...

Previous studies measured the overall force applied when an elephant wraps its trunk around an object to lift it, but in a paper published in May 2024, they focused on the tip of the trunk to ...

The trunk of an elephant is among the versatile appendages in the animal kingdom. Now a research team has shown that most of its dexterity can be reproduced with a model using just three "muscles." ...