A team led by researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), in Switzerland, may have finally solved the mystery of how the skin of African bush elephants becomes so cracked—a characteristic ...
If you focus directly on the skin of an African elephant, you can transport yourself far away from the 11-foot-tall beast. Disregard the tusks, the flapping ears, and 20-inch-wide feet. Once you’ve ...
An intricate network of minuscule crevices adorns the skin surface of the African bush elephant. By retaining water and mud, these micrometer-wide channels greatly help elephants in regulating their ...
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