Studying whiskers on an elephant's trunk (opens in new tab)

This is the sentence that piqued my curiosity:"Haptic researchers discovered a difference of two orders of magnitude in the elasticity of the thousand whiskers of an Asian elephant's trunk as they progress from the base to the tip."The sentence was one of the "Findings" listed in the May 2026 issue of (this recurring feature is a wonderfully eclectic potpourri of scientific observations). The source was not provided, but a brief search led me to the and to the : "Functionally graded keratin f...