Elephants are highly intelligent, social creatures that live in “fission-fusion societies,” meaning they regularly split up—then later reunite—as they roam around their environment. When ...
New research explores how African savannah elephants use vocalizations, gestures and secretions when they meet up with companions Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent When humans meet up with a ...
There are so many ways to say hello. People wave, bow, shake hands, hug, kiss, fist bump, say “hi” or any combo of these. But there’s one greeting from nature that we sure hope doesn’t ...
Doma (male) and Kariba (female) greeting. Source: Vesta Eleuteri, used with permission. Like other species that live in multi-level societies, African savannah elephants regularly separate and ...
Elephants use ear flaps, rumbles, trunk reaches and other forms of communication to greet peers, new research suggests. When elephants reunite with friends, they greet each other with ear flaps ...
Scientists have discovered the strange way that African elephants like to communicate with each other: by defecating. The new study, published in Communications Biology by researchers at the ...
When elephants reunite with friends, they greet each other with ear flaps, rumbles and other deliberate sounds and gestures, new research shows. The study, which was published May 9 in the journal ...
In addition to visual and auditory signals, smell also plays a significant role in elephant greetings. Elephants may release body waste or secretions from a special gland as part of their greeting ...
African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) are the world's largest living land-based animals, reaching a height between 10 and 13 feet (roughly 3 to 4 meters) and weighing between 4 to 7 tons.
While scientists have long known African savanna elephants likely mourn their dead, little has been reported about such emotions in wild Asian elephants. Now, an intriguing new study suggests they ...