Communication is crucial for elephants that live in complex multi-tiered social systems. Apart from their iconic trumpets uttered through the trunk, Asian elephants also produce species-specific ...

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When you think of elephants, you likely think of very large, gentle, placid creatures that have a distinct ‘trumpet’ kind of sound, but, in fact, we can’t hear most of the sounds that elephants make.

An animal caretaker took a heroic dive into a pool to save a drowning antelope at a Guatemala zoo. But the first responder on the scene was an elephant. Trompita, a 61-year-old Asian elephant, sounded ...