Elephants form joints with trunk to pick up small objects to eat

Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 08:20 in Biology & Nature

A team of researchers with members from the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Atlanta Zoo and the Rochester Institute of Technology has uncovered the means by which elephants are able to quickly and easily grab and very quickly eat small objects. In their paper published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, the group describes their study and what they found.

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