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In A Nutshell Elephant whiskers have “physical intelligence”: Three built-in gradients (geometry, porosity, and stiffness) work together to amplify touch signals and encode contact location without ...
Elephants use about 1,000 specialized trunk whiskers with a built-in stiffness gradient to precisely sense contact.
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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.