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Elephants use about 1,000 specialized trunk whiskers with a built-in stiffness gradient to precisely sense contact.
Elephants use about 1,000 specialized trunk whiskers with a built-in stiffness gradient to precisely sense contact.
“The hairs on the head, body, and tail of Asian elephants are stiff from base to tip, which is what we were expecting when we ...
A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max ...
That’s because the trunk is highly sensitive when it comes to sensing touch. Scientists have determined that the whiskers ...
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The whiskers of elephants and domestic cats have stiff bases that transition to soft rubber-like tips, different from the stiff whiskers of rats ...
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A new national monitoring program provides, for the first time, area-representative knowledge of semi-natural grasslands in Norway. The results show ...