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 ...

African elephants are known to recognize groups of humans, to test electric fences with their tusks to avoid injury, and (of course) can remember paths to resources passed down to them decades earlier ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elephants are known for their intelligence and social complexity, and recent observations show they might even engage in playful ...

Animals often surprise us with their habits and intelligence. In a remarkable display of wit, a video is going viral on social media showing an elephant cleverly disabling an electric fence—seemingly ...

(Top left) In an undated image provided by Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Schulz (right) and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, holding the 3-D printed ‘whisker wand’; and (top) the end of an ...

Animals continue to amaze us with their innate intelligence, and one such moment has recently captured the internet’s attention. A video showing an elephant cleverly dismantling an electric fence to ...

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 ...

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