The forest, the cave and the river are far louder than they seem to us. Three animals show how much our ears leave out, and ...

Elephants appear to harmonise their vocal rumbles when they join together to form choruses, tuning their voices to sound more alike as the chorus unfolds. The findings come from a machine learning ...

Elephants often rumble in overlapping choruses, and machine learning shows those calls carry clues about what the group is ...

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 ...

With an electrode adhered to one fan-shaped ear, another on the back of the neck and a ground wire at its hip, an African elephant munches on a snack as it is presented with a sound, over and over ...

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Elephants are known for deep calls, strong family bonds, and remarkable memories. But some of their most important conversations may happen without a sound.

There are many instances on social media showing people being chased by wild elephants. In one viral video, two men run down a road with an elephant in close pursuit. The men are running as fast as ...