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The functional anatomy of elephant trunk whiskers
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 savanna elephants have more trunk tip whiskers than Asian elephants. Adult elep...
Autores principales: | Deiringer, Nora, Schneeweiß, Undine, Kaufmann, Lena V., Eigen, Lennart, Speissegger, Celina, Gerhardt, Ben, Holtze, Susanne, Fritsch, Guido, Göritz, Frank, Becker, Rolf, Ochs, Andreas, Hildebrandt, Thomas, Brecht, Michael |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10250425/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37291455 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04945-5 |
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