Images and videos
Do elephants have six fingers?
MOST GRAPHICS/MOVIES WERE GENERATED BY C0-AUTHOR JULIA MOLNAR. TO INQUIRE ABOUT USE AND DISTRIBUTION, PLEASE WRITE TO HER (jmolnar at rvc dot ac dot uk) — or John Hutchinson (jrhutch at rvc dot ac dot uk).
Above: 6 pictures of elephant feet from our research, including gait/pressure pad analyses (work in progress/in press), and motion capture analyses of foot motion (bottom image) as well as elephants across their ontogeny. Copyright John R. Hutchinson, 2011.
Above: Elephant prepollex cleaned up for histology (left) and then cut open to show internal structure (pink area on right is bone). Copyright Alan Boyde, 2011.
Above two images: Elephant predigit sectioned for histology (pink areas are bone; white are cartilage). Copyright Alan Boyde, 2011.
Above: Cross-sectional images of elephant before (left) and after (right) preparation for electron micrographs to show bone density patterns and structure. Copyright Alan Boyde, 2011.
Above: Anaglyph (colour 3D image) of a cavity inside elephant predigit bone. Copyright Alan Boyde, 2011.
Above video: Elephant prehallux reconstructed from microCT scans. Yellow material is bone; cartilage has been made transparent. Copyright John Hutchinson, 2011.
Above video: Elephant fore and hind foot (manus, pes) structures labelled. Double-click to enlarge. Copyright John Hutchinson/Julia Molnar, 2011
Above two videos: The evolution of proboscidean (elephants and kin) fore/hind foot (manus, pes) on left/right respectively, with structures labelled. Early slides show earlier animals. Double-click to enlarge. Copyright John Hutchinson/Julia Molnar, 2011.
Above image: On left: The right fore foot (manus) of the very early elephant relative Barytherium (picture below), shown from above. On right: The left fore foot of a giant panda, shown in palmar view, displaying the predigit (left side; black arrow). Copyright Cyrille Delmer, Julia Molnar and John Hutchinson, 2011.
