• How do elephants communicate over great distances? (Elephants communicate over great distances by using very low frequency sounds called infrasounds. These sounds are below the range of human hearing. Infrasounds can travel farther ... Assign each student to write a short paragraph explaining what she or he has learned.
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Q: How fast can elephants run?; A: Elephants can only run short distances at a time because of their considerable size and weight. They reach a top running speed ... Q: Why do elephants “trumpet”?; A: The trumpeting sound is used to denote excitement and anger, or simply to communicate over a long distance.
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Elephants may be able to communicate over long distances but it’s hard to tell, because they’re not talking. Instead, they may be transmitting infrasonic signals through the ground with seismic waves. Gunther et al. ... next article 24.06.2004 ... Roland H. Gunther | Source: Geophysical Research Letters ;
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Elephants can see and smell their fellow herd members over long distances too, ... "The auditory system seems to provide a method to detect and communicate with individuals over both long and short distances, and we know that individuals can use auditory information to determine the location and identity of herd members,"
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Minimum frequency is higher in species with large groups, and correlates negatively with duration, which may reflect the increased distances over which non-social species communicate. ... 4f). There is an inverse trend in tonal sound duration, where particularly short tonal sounds appear to be derived within the delphinids (Fig. 4c).
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Yet another selective force shaping an animal's song or call is the distance over which the animal must vocalize. Elephants, which often must communicate over great distances, ... Mice, on the other hand, communicate over short distances with high-pitched squeaks. Some other selective forces which have acted,
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Being short-lived and deliberate, acoustic signals are useful for giving information about an immediate situation, rather than about a constant state. ... And second, because lower frequency sound travels farther than higher frequency sound, elephants use the more powerful of these calls to communicate over long distances.
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- How many words can elephants understand? - The intelligence of elephants in comparison to primates; - Prof Short’s circus experiences; - The knowledge of mahoots; - How can we communicate with elephants, and help save them? ... « 077 - Prof Roger Short - Saving Asian Elephants 1...
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elephants over the last century, calculate ... allow large animals with very short necks ... How do elephants communicate over long distances? ...
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