From cooling their massive bodies to strengthening social bonds, elephants use mud baths as a versatile tool to stay comfortable, healthy, and happy in their often harsh environments. For these ...

And as the mud dried, the particles would adhere to the ... but it didn't have the same elastic properties as human skin. So they made their own ball out of PDMS, carefully tuned to the same ...

It can endure prolonged periods under dried, hardened mud, effectively in a state of suspended ... survive up to 30 hours on land as long as its skin remains moist. The fish achieves this by ...