2023-06-08Zeitschriftenartikel
The functional anatomy of elephant trunk whiskers
Deiringer, Nora; Schneeweiß, Undine; Kaufmann, Lena Valentina; Eigen, Lennart; Speissegger, Celina; Gerhardt, Ben; Holtze, Susanne; Fritsch, Guido; Göritz, Frank; Becker, Rolf; Ochs, Andreas; Hildebrandt, Thomas Bernd; Brecht, Michael
Behavior and innervation suggest a high tactile sensitivity of elephant trunks. To clarify the tactile trunk periphery we studied whiskers with the following findings. Whisker density is high at the trunk tip and African ...