New research explores how African savannah elephants use vocalizations, gestures and secretions when they meet up with ...
W hen elephants reunite with friends, they greet each other with ear flaps, rumbles and other deliberate sounds and gestures, ...
When African elephants meet up with their friends, they greet them with a mix of vocalizations and gestures in a way that’s ...
The study, published in Communications Biology, identified approximately 20 movements associated with elephant greetings.
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 ...
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 ...
People greet each other in a variety of ways. They might say "hello," "guten tag," "hola," "konnichiwa" or "g'day." They ...
As it happens, researchers are learning more about how the animals greet each other, and how relationships among the social ...
People greet each other in a variety of ways. They might say "hello," "guten tag," "hola," "konnichiwa" or "g'day." They might shake hands, bump fists, make a fist-and-palm gesture or press their ...
Elephants are too big to notice little grey donkeys like me. Nobody talks to a donkey. Oh well, never mind. On I go, carrying ...