{"613218":{"#nid":"613218","#data":{"type":"news","title":"How Elephants Eat with Their Trunks","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/d-brief\/2018\/10\/23\/how-elephants-eat-with-their-trunks\/\u0022 rel=\u0022bookmark\u0022 title=\u0022Permanent Link to How do Elephants Eat With Their Trunks?\u0022\u003EHow do Elephants Eat With Their Trunks?\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBy\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/authors?name=Roni+Dengler\u0022\u003ERoni Dengler\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;| October 23, 2018 6:01 pm\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs 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.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/d-brief\/2018\/10\/23\/how-elephants-eat-with-their-trunks\/#.W9Cid2hKiF7\u0022\u003ERead the full story by Roni Dengler\u0026nbsp;here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDavid Hu is an associate professor in the Schools of Mechanical Engineering and Biological Sciences and an adjunct associate professor in the School of Physics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"External News: David Hu\u0027s work on how elephants eat in Discover"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"External coverage of David Hu\u0027s investigation of elephant feeding "}],"uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2018-10-24 17:03:56","changed_gmt":"2018-10-24 17:14:49","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-10-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-10-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"613220":{"id":"613220","type":"image","title":"Elephant trunk (By Anton Ivanov, Shutterstock)","body":null,"created":"1540400820","gmt_created":"2018-10-24 17:07:00","changed":"1540400820","gmt_changed":"2018-10-24 17:07:00","alt":"","file":{"fid":"233453","name":"2018 elephanttrunk (Shutterstock).jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2018%20elephanttrunk%20%28Shutterstock%29.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2018%20elephanttrunk%20%28Shutterstock%29.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":109049,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2018%20elephanttrunk%20%28Shutterstock%29.jpg?itok=tA0ZWSO-"}}},"media_ids":["613220"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"297","name":"David Hu"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["maureen.rouhi@cos.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}