“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 ...

The whiskers provide elephants with a supercharged sense of touch that compensates for their thick skin and poor eyesight.

An elephant can lift a log, swing sand onto its back, and still pick up a peanut without crushing it. That mix of strength and delicacy has always looked a little mysterious, especially because ...

Elephants use about 1,000 specialized trunk whiskers with a built-in stiffness gradient to precisely sense contact.

A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max ...