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--- Elephants Communicate With Infrasound At A Frequency So Low That Humans Can’t Hear It *by Trisha Leigh* *[image: Source: Shutterstock]* *Elephants are smart creatures, there’s no doubt about it.* *And just when you think you know every amazing fact there is to know, biologists go ahead and discover something else that will totally blow your mind.* *Like the way they can **communicate without <https://www.iflscience.com/elephants-have-a-private-way-of-communicating-that-humans-cant-hear-74913>** human beings being able to hear a thing.* *Scientists say they use infrasound, which are a frequency too low for our ears to detect.* *Elephants are able to create it using their giant organs, and the sound registers with other elephants – even those far away through dense forest.* *[image: Source: Shutterstock]* *A 2012 paper **detailed <https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1219712>** how elephants made the sounds and say it’s similar to how **we produce <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120803103421.htm#:~:text=Elephants%20can%20communicate%20using%20very,in%20elephants'%20complex%20social%20life.>** human speech or singing.* *“These low-frequency sounds, termed ‘infrasounds,’ can travel several kilometers, and provide elephants with a ‘private’ communication channel that plays an important role in elephants’ complex social life. Their frequencies are as low as the lowest notes of a pipe organ.”* *That said, scientists haven’t been sure how they were making such low sounds.* *Recently, a team of researchers removed the larynx from a deceased elephant and blew air through it in a lab. By manipulating the vocal folds, the recreating low-frequency vibrations that characterize infrasounds.* *The elephants achieve this by singing, and the size of their larynx means they can reach those super low notes – even if we can’t hear them.* *[image: Source: Shutterstock]* *This is a trait that (in different frequencies) is shared across a majority of animals.* *One day soon, AI might mean we can not only hear and understand, but communicate with animals in their own language as well.* *What a world.* -- *Mar* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CACDCHCJYwhz7QU0u6pHL9bSqZ9hnaCwAkz_%3DrBR%2BbNseWMiGXg%40mail.gmail.com.
