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Discover | Posted: October 23, 2018
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External coverage of David Hu's investigation of elephant feeding
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Elephant trunk (By Anton Ivanov, Shutterstock)How do Elephants Eat With Their Trunks?
By Roni Dengler | October 23, 2018 6:01 pm
As the largest land mammal on the planet, elephants eat a lot of food. On average, the giants consume more than 440 pounds of vegetation per day, or the equivalent of about two corncobs per minute. And now, scientists have figured out how the beasts are able to eat so much so fast....To figure out how elephants pick up so much stuff at a time, David Hu and his colleagues filmed a 34-year-old female African elephant from the Atlanta zoo as she consumed loads of carrots and rutabagas cut into differently sized cubes, as well as heaps of bran.
Read the full story by Roni Dengler here.
David Hu is an associate professor in the Schools of Mechanical Engineering and Biological Sciences and an adjunct associate professor in the School of Physics.
