After years observing elephants in the wild, filmmaker Martyn Colbeck has learned how vast — and how mysterious — the realm of elephant communication is. Elephants rely on a complex communication ...

African elephants (Loxodonta Africana) live in the savannas, rainforests, woodlands, and scrub forests of central and southern Africa. In these wide-open landscapes, long-distance communication is a ...

By sensing vibrations through the ground, elephants can communicate, detect danger and navigate vast landscapes.

Elephants can communicate using very low frequency sounds, with pitches below the range of human hearing. These low-frequency sounds, termed "infrasounds", can travel several kilometers, and provide ...

Elephants learn to imitate sounds that are not typical of their species, the first known example after humans of vocal learning in a non-primate terrestrial mammal. The discovery, reported in today's ...

Two captive elephants—one making truck noises and the other chirping like a different elephant species—could be the first nonprimate, land mammals demonstrated to do vocal imitations. “It is certainly ...

We wave, we hug, we shake hands, or we just say, hey. Turns out we're not the only mammals that do this. So do elephants. (SOUNDBITE OF ELEPHANTS RUMBLING) KURTZLEBEN: That is a recording of two ...

(COLORADO) — Colorado State University (CSU) scientists have discovered a way in which elephants are just like people; they call each other by name. According to a study published in Nature Ecology ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On a hot day in the African savannah, a group of elephants searches for food. While foraging they often lose sight of one another. Yet at the end of the day the elephants ...

Audie Cornish talks to Tecumseh Fitch of the University of Vienna in Austria about the science behind elephant communication through sound. CORNISH: Elephants can feel this kind of low rumbling from ...

When you think of elephants, you likely think of very large, gentle, placid creatures that have a distinct ‘trumpet’ kind of sound, but, in fact, we can’t hear most of the sounds that elephants make.