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 ...

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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.

A fascinating new insight into elephant communication has been uncovered, with researchers finding that a group of males will harmonize a rumbling sound, from one to the next, to signal that it's time ...

Rumble, roar, trumpet, and chirp. Armed with artificial intelligence-powered algorithms, Seema Lokhandwala listens closely to Asian elephant sounds in the forests of Assam, a hotspot of human-elephant ...

Ferocious human-like monsters that battle hobbits and heroes in the blockbuster film “The Fellowship of the Ring” owe their voices to a serendipitous drive into the fog-swept Marin Headlands and a Bay ...

Scientists say an Asian elephant at a South Korean zoo can imitate human speech, saying five Korean words that are readily understood by people who speak the language. The male elephant, named Koshik, ...