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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...

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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
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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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