The elephants could communicate with them several miles away by emitting sounds at low frequencies but also use the soles of your feet to ‘hear’ the call of his peers, thanks to the vibrations that cause the steps thereof, as the British magazine New Scientist.
A team of researchers led by Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell, the medical department of Stanford University, California, USA, suspected that the vibrations of your steps too were captured by their sensitive limbs.
The researchers recorded in Namibia and Kenya elephants call to alert their counterparts in the presence of lions.
Then separate the signals coming from the vibrations of the other of the call and returned to the places to play the first signs in flooded areas around which were gathered elephants.
According to New Scientist in its issue to appear on Saturday, the elephants “reacted dramatically, remaining static at first and then grouped with the babies in the middle.”
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The elephants could communicate with them several miles away by emitting sounds at low frequencies but also use the soles of your feet to ‘hear’ the call of his peers, thanks to the vibrations that cause the steps thereof, as the British magazine New Scientist.
