The whiskers on an elephant's trunk are key to its "amazing" sense of touch, reveals new research. The 1,000 hairs that cover the trunk have unusual properties that highlight where contact happens ...
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Elephant trunk whiskers exhibit material intelligence, revealing the secret behind an amazing sense of touch
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 ...
Using nanoindentation, the researchers pushed into whisker walls with a diamond cube indenter the size of a single cell. Indentation at the base and tip of elephant and cat whiskers showed a shift ...
Nick and Sally keep cool in the desert. / Elephants' trunks are just like hands. The Cat takes Nick and Sally to the Dizzle-dazzle Desert to learn how to keep cool. They learn that some animals are ...
Indentation performed at the base and the tip of the elephant and cat whiskers showed a transition from a stiff, plastic-like base to a soft, rubber-like tip that could not be permanently indented, a ...
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