Back from two weeks of fieldwork in Cambodia's Mondulkiri region, where I was lucky enough to observe and film 7 elephants in the middle of the forest, hosted by the Elephant Valley Project. A wonderful experience!

Elephants use the tips of their trunks to grasp things with great precision – how this can help robotic design New research has found that the two ‘fingers’ on the tip of an elephant’s trunk exert different forces. The finding will be used to improve the abilities of bio-inspired robots.

Elephants use the tips of their trunks to grasp things with great precision – how this can help robotic design 🐘via @TC_Africa

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New paper out, quantifying the force of pinching with the tip of the trunk of the @zoobeauval elephants!

Maximum trunk tip force assessment related to trunk position and prehensile ’fingers’ implication ...#PLOSONE
@Le_Museum @UMR_MECADEV @FUNEVOL_MNHN

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I'm happy to share my first thesis article, co-first authored with @JulieSoppelsa , on the elephant trunk's use. In collaboration with C Houssin, @Boulinguez, @CamillePacou, P Gouat, R Cornette and E Pouydebat.@Le_Museum @UMR_MECADEV @WileyEcolEvol

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I was delighted to present my research at the "Integrating elephants into more-than-human narratives" workshop organised by Violette Pouillard, Marianna Szczygielska and Éric Baratay at the @UniversiteLyon. The discussion was very rich and interdisciplinary!

Very proud to share my first paper in which we compared the shape of the humerus and ulna of three European mole species : T. europaea, T. occidentalis and the newly described T. aquitania.

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Yesterday, I made my first intervention with schoolchildren thanks to the @savantures programmes. I talked to high school and primary school classes and their teachers about elephants, my thesis and the research profession! It was very enriching, I can't wait to do it again!

I was pleased to present my M1 research work at the CJCM about the comparison, on the humerus and ulna, of 3 species of European moles : T. aquitania, T. europaea and T. occidentalis.