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It's one of the most fabled talents in the animal world – elephants' ability to "talk" via rumbles in the earth. Now zoologists in Namibia are trying to harness these seismic social calls - to lure rampaging males back to safety.
2009-02-14
mating communication elephant infrasoundAre elephants so smart that they can spot the difference when they hear people speaking different languages?
2010-02-17
animal intelligence elephant smell hearing cognition psychology brainThey have been monitoring communications between animals that cannot be heard by human ears. The elephant's trumpeting call will be familiar to most people, but the animals also emit growls. Their growls, however, are only partly audible; two-thirds of the call is at frequencies that are too low to be picked up by our hearing.
2010-02-22
language elephant signal infrasoundResearchers are now lifting the veil on the elephants' secretive lives, and they are doing so by listening to the rumbles in the jungle.
2010-03-03
elephant language communication infrasound toreadDespite their immense size and thick hides, elephants are afraid of bees. Adults can be stung around their eyes or inside their trunks, whilst calves could potentially be killed by a swarm of stinging bees as they have yet to develop a thick protective skin.
2010-04-27
elephant bee sting communicationThe elephants are routinely forced to touch the heads of pilgrims with their trunks as a form of blessing. But officials say the practice could be putting the animals at risk of tuberculosis.
2010-08-04
India ritual religion elephant tuberculosisSri Lanka's wildlife veterinary surgeons have gone on strike in protest at what they say is the government's failure to manage a serious conflict between wild elephants and humans.
2010-08-17
Sri Lanka elephant encroachingSri Lanka is turning a vast area of jungle, earlier a base for Tamil Tiger rebels, into a wildlife sanctuary. The government said the former war zone, spread over 40,000 hectares in Mullaitivu in northern Sri Lanka, would be used for wildlife conservation.
2010-12-02
Sri Lanka elephant wildlife animal civil war Tamil Tigers