African savannah elephants use a variety of calls to communicate, and now machine learning has shown that they tune their ...

Across the Kenyan savanna, one elephant lets out a deep rumble and another seems to know it was meant especially for her, rather than the whole herd. That wonderfully personal possibility sits at the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (COLORADO) — Colorado State University (CSU) scientists have discovered a way in which elephants are just like people; they call ...

In elephant family groups made up of related females and their young, it is clear that the animals produce vocal sounds to coordinate action. This happens when it's time to leave a waterhole, for ...

Two elephants playfully interact with one another. Source: Nilina/Pexels Imagine yourself standing on the savanna. You can't see any animals nearby, but suddenly you feel a thrumming in the air around ...

You might think that elephants get all the hearing they need with their big ears. But it turns out the colossal mammals also use their feet. Sound travels through the air and different surfaces as ...