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  • Source:
    New Scientist. 6/9/2007, Vol. 194 Issue 2607, p22-22. 2/3p.
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    • Subject Terms:
      ELEPHANTS; O'CONNELL-Rodwell, Caitlin; ANIMAL behavior; ANIMAL communication; ANIMAL sound production; ANIMAL sounds
    • Abstract:
      The article reports on findings of animal behaviorists that found that elephants communicate with nearby herds using low-frequency vocalizations to communicate between herds up to several kilometers apart. These rumblings also generate seismic waves in the ground. Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell of Stanford University Medical Center in California and her colleagues found that herds of elephants only respond to communications from nearby herds and ignore communications of herds that lived far away.