“The hairs on the head, body, and tail of Asian elephants are stiff from base to tip, which is what we were expecting when we found the surprising stiffness gradient of elephant trunk whiskers,” ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks. The research was published ...

Elephants are born with about 1,000 of these bristles, many of them anchored in the trunk’s wrinkles to act like feelers. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

There are about 1,000 tiny hairs on an elephant’s rugged trunk, all designed to help the animal feel, a new study found.

Researchers have studied rat and mouse whiskers, but these key organs for elephants have been largely overlooked.

Pachyderm whiskers are more flexible at the tip than the base, allowing elephants to complete delicate tasks with their incredibly strong trunks ...