"Both elephants entered their temples amid traditional music, rituals, and vibrant celebrations, preserving sacred pageantry ...

ALAPPUZHA: Marking a historic and path-breaking turn in Kerala's temple traditions, Voices for Asian Elephants Society (VFAES ...

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.

Bollywood actor Disha Patani and PETA India have donated a mechanical elephant to Thodathra Kalapattu Sree Bhadrakali Temple, embracing a humane alternative for rituals. The temple celebrates this ...

Elephants use their trunks much like a human uses their hands: to pick up food and manipulate objects. A new study finds that tiny, specialized whiskers on elephant trunks help them do it.

The whiskers of elephants and domestic cats have stiff bases that transition to soft rubber-like tips, different from the stiff whiskers of rats ...

Embedded within the trunk are thousands of hair-like projections that embody one of the nature's most beautiful evidence of ...

An elephant's trunk is essential for most aspects of the animal's life, from interacting with its environment and with other ...

While the whiskers on a cat might be known to help them balance and detect their surroundings, scientists have discovered elephants have super whiskers too. Around 1,000 whiskers cover their trunks, ...

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