Stomping Elephants

[Amethyst Rose]

First....a brief excerpt form a news story....

**A new study by Stanford University researchers indicates that elephants use foot-stomping and vocal rumblings as part of an elaborate system of seismic communication, sending vibrations through the ground to other elephants far beyond the reach of audible sound.**

You can read the full story at this link:
http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/03/03132001/reu_stomp_42495.asp

And on to the post.....

I found this kinda interesting, because I just read a book, published in 1998, written by Barbra Gowdy, called "The White Bone". The book was intriguing, because the main characters were elephants.
Why I find this news story funny, is that throughout the book, the elephants were rummbling/stomping out messages to each other.....
So...this study was just released, yet this author wrote about this "phenomenon" 3 years ago.... interesting.....

Anyway.... I just wanted to share :)

[Earth Walker]

:) It does sound very interesting, but I would hate
to be the person walking behind them with a
pooper-scooper. bigredgri
;) :cool:

[Carmelo]

It's strange what some researchers discover that others have speculated in various ways. Kind of makes you think...are we all somehow connected to each other's mind (though some of us have a delayed receipt of the message)?

[Ayla]

Although this study has only just been released, it's been known for over a decade how the ancient mammoth communicated via growls (rumbles) so low that only the most sensitive of human ears would be able to hear it. In fact it was their mating call...
Study of likely mammoth behaviour is based not only on archeological extrapolation from fossils, but also from a study of their descendants, the elephants.

Love & Hugs,
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[Tigerwallah]

Many animals communicate with sound. Dolphins, whales, and bats use echoes to communicate. Scientists have said that dolphins can read eachother's minds.

Elephants have created for themselves a telephone system!!! And they don't have to worry about the bills!!!

Another interesting thing about Elephants is that they have funerals for their fallen. They also cry when they are sad. We are not so different from the creatures we share this earth with.

[Dragonmother]

The woman who made this discovery was in the elephant house at the London zoo, and she heard something like a very distant thunder, but the weather was fine... She kept hearing it, and the elephant she was looking at showed actions as if he were reacting to something, but there was nothing happening in his enclosure. What she was hearing turned out to be an echo of this subsonic noise they make, where the walls, reflecting it back and forth, had raised the pitch to just within human hearing range. The sound can travel for miles and miles through the ground, so elephants who are seperated by huge distances are actually in vocal contact with each other. Elephants have big brains, and they have as many folds in the brain surface as we do. Scientist think that brain surface may be a factor in intelligence.