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Elephants are known for their intelligence, strong social bonds, and good memories. But do they communicate to show real ...

Elephants were found to gesture intentionally when they wanted humans to give them apples. This trait was thought to exist mainly in primates.

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Elephants produce a range of vocalizations, from trumpets and barks to many types of rumbles. Their structures are complicated. For example, rumbles are low-frequency sounds, partially outside the ...

Photos taken by researchers show two different elephant greetings. They found that elephants combined noises and gestures to say hello to each other. Vesta Eleuteri.

Dr. de Silva recently published " Elephants: Behavior and Conservation," a book compiling more than 20 years of research on African and Asian elephants. In recognition of Earth Day 2025, de Silva ...

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Wild African elephants may address each other using individualized calls that resemble the personal names used by humans, a new study suggests. While dolphins are known to call one another by ...

Next, the team compared the reactions of 17 wild elephants in response to recordings of calls. These calls were either addressed to them or a different elephant.