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feet are amazing! Those fatty pads contain high densities of pacinian corpuscles which help them sense seismic vibrations and likely the infrasonic rumbles of other elephants.





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Filippo was born in Pistoia in 1812. He was the discoverer of Pacinian corpuscles (1835), the vibrio (1854) and one of the first artificial techniques (1867).

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