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 ...

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 ...

An elephant takes part in a test trial where the human’s body and face are directed towards the animal. Kyoto, Japan -- With their massive flapping ears and long trunks, it isn't hard to believe that ...