Like humans, elephants are famously social creatures. But unlike teenage humans, Asian elephants ( Elephas maximus) can think ...

Elephants have long been admired for their intelligence, strength, and gentle nature, and a recent video has once again demonstrated just how extraordinary these majestic creatures truly are. The clip ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...