Aug 2, 2012 · Biologists have speculated that some similar muscle twitching creates the deep throbbing of elephant infrasound. But elephants can get their rumbles going just by exhaling air through their...

How did we find out that elephants use infrasound? When elephants are listening, they tend to hold their ears out wide and keep them still. But when they rumble, they often flap their ears, giving us a clue that someone is talking even when we can’t hear them.

Aug 3, 2012 · These low-frequency sounds, termed "infrasounds," can travel several kilometers, and provide elephants with a "private" communication channel that plays an important role in elephants' complex...

Elephants can produce infrasonic calls which occur at frequencies less than 20 Hz. [14] Infrasonic calls are important, particularly for long-distance communication, [1] in both Asian and African elephants. For Asian elephants, these calls have a frequency of 14–24 Hz, with sound pressure levels of 85–90 dB and last 10–15 seconds. [15]

Jun 8, 2022 · Our recent discovery of elephants’ infrasonic communication abilities, combined with our technological ability to detect and map infrasound, will allow us to gain a more comprehensive understanding of elephant behaviour, herd movement, and social interaction.

Jul 2, 2024 · Infrasound occurs at low frequencies and can travel a long way through the ground. Elephants' private way of communicating is one of their worst-kept secrets, known to science even if we humans...

Aug 2, 2012 · With their trumpet-like calls, elephants may seem like some of the loudest animals on Earth. But we can't hear most of the sounds they make. The creatures produce low-frequency noises between 1 to 20 Hertz, known as infrasounds, that help them keep in touch over distances as large as 10 kilometers.

Aug 3, 2012 · Over the past 20 years, it has been recognized that elephants can communicate through extremely low frequency infrasonic sounds. Taking advantage of a natural death of an elephant in a zoo, Herbst et al. (p. 595) examined the biomechanics of elephant sound production in an excised elephant larynx.

Jan 1, 2021 · In this chapter, I have provided an overview of elephant communication with an emphasis on the African savannah and the Asian elephant’s vocal systems, discussing the acoustic structure of calls (sonic and infrasonic), sound production, and perception mechanisms.

Jan 1, 2010 · The African elephant, Loxodonta africana, stands out among those as a mammal known to use loud, low-frequency, long-range communication as an integral part of its behavior. Elephants can generate sounds with frequencies below 10 Hz and can detect sounds as low as 1 …