Elephants Use All Kinds Of Gestures To Communicate – They Just Want Apples

Elephants Use All Kinds Of Gestures To Communicate – They Just Want Apples

Nobody wants to be on the receiving end of "trunk-throw-sand-experimenter".

How Elephants Say They Like Them Apples

Researchers found that the animals are capable of using their trunks to make a range of gestures that express their intentions and wants.

How Elephants Call Each Other by Name: Joyce Poole on a Lifetime of Listening

What if animals used names like we do — not just sounds, but unique vocal labels to call out to one another across the wild? A groundbreaking study recently confirmed that African elephants do just that, revealing one of the rarest forms of communication in the animal kingdom. For Dr. Joyce Poole, co-author of the study and Scientific Director of ElephantVoices, the discovery is part of a lifetime spent listening to elephants and decoding their …