Understanding how elephants use their trunk (IMAGE)

Université de Genève

Understanding how elephants use their trunk

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The combination of motion capture experiments and medical imaging reveals how an elephant controls the movements of its trunk. Here, Michel Milinkovitch and one of the elephants used in this study, Bela Bela, South Africa.

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Michel Milinkovitch

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