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It's a safari postcard moment: A family of elephants rush together, rumbling, trumpeting, and screaming, their chorused voices deafening in the wilderness.
To casual observers, the sight is pure animal theatrics, and thrilling testimony to the magnificence of Africa's wildlife. But biologist Joyce Poole knows there's a lot more happening than meets the ear.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0221_030221_elephantvocal1.html

Elephants communicate with one another in a number of ways, including sound, sight, touch, and scent. But it is the noises they make—a repertoire of rumbles, roars, trumpets, bellows, cries, screams, and snorts that spans almost ten octaves, including sounds that humans cannot hear—that scientists find the most challenging to comprehend.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0221_030221_disneyelephants.html

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