An elephant’s trunk is a marvelous thing, flexible enough to bend and stretch as it forages for food, but also stiff enough to grasp and maneuver even delicate objects like peanuts or a tortilla chip.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Happy, the Asian elephant whose groundbreaking participation in a mirror-recognition study transformed scientific ...