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🗓️ 20 October 2021
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0:35.3 | This is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science. |
0:38.3 | I'm Karen Hopkins. |
0:40.3 | Ask anyone what an elephant sounds like, and they'll come up with something like this. |
0:46.3 | But some elephants can also do this. |
0:51.3 | And researchers using an acoustic camera that converts sounds into colors have figured |
0:57.7 | out how. The findings appear in the journal BMC Biology. Elephants actually have a few ways |
1:03.5 | they can get their message across. In addition to the traditional trumpet, they also communicate |
1:09.7 | using a rumble whose pitch is often too low for humans to hear. |
1:15.4 | But then the Asian elephant and the Asian elephant only produces ridiculously high-pitched squeaks |
1:22.6 | that seem to come rather from a mouse than from an animal the size of an elephant. |
1:30.0 | Veronica Bigg of the University of Vienna. She and her colleague set out to locate the source of |
1:35.2 | these unusual chirps. The only idea that was out there so far was that elephants produce |
1:41.4 | squeaks in the same way as they produce the trumpets. |
1:45.3 | That is, using their trunk. |
1:47.0 | So we started out with just observing the facial movements and posture of Asian elephants when they squeak. |
1:55.1 | First up, a group of 14 adult females at an elephant camp in Nepal. |
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