Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A zookeeper feeling the whiskers that cover an Asian elephant’s trunk. To examine how the elephant trunk whiskers work, engineers ...

African elephants are known to recognize groups of humans, to test electric fences with their tusks to avoid injury, and (of course) can remember paths to resources passed down to them decades earlier ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Katherine Kuchenbecker (left) and Andrew Schulz (right) with a 3D-printed replica of an elephant's trunk hair, which helped the ...

Forest elephants, true to the name, spend their lives hidden in the rainforest, which is a problem if you study them. PETER WREGE: We basically have no idea what they're doing, how they're using the ...

Dr. Katherine Kuchenbecker, a roboticist from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), was walking down a hallway tapping the railings, walls, and columns with a “wand” her student, ...

A research team led by the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems discovered that the secret to the elephant’s amazing sense of touch is in its unusual whiskers. Their fascinating findings were ...

Elephants have long been admired for their intelligence, strength, and gentle nature, and a recent video has once again demonstrated just how extraordinary these majestic creatures truly are. The clip ...