Wild elephants seem to address each other using distinctive, rumbling sounds that could be akin to individual names. That’s according to a provocative new study in the journal Nature Ecology & ...

If you want to hear elephants gossip about each other in Kenya, you can either travel south to the Amboseli National Park or explore the greater Samburu ecosystem in the north. In both areas, you will ...

A fascinating new insight into elephant communication has been uncovered, with researchers finding that a group of males will harmonize a rumbling sound, from one to the next, to signal that it's time ...

Stand near an elephant herd, and you may feel a strange vibration in your chest. That’s not your heart beating in terror because you’re, well, standing next to an ...

Cornell University's Elephant Listening Project is using artificial intelligence and audio recorders in a bid to save forest elephants from poachers. A few years ago, researchers fanned out across ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Sophia Waterfield is a reporter for Newsweek based at its London bureau. She has written for publications such as Metro UK, New Scientist, and Forbes.com, and has covered topics such as business ...

Two elephants playfully interact with one another. Source: Nilina/Pexels Imagine yourself standing on the savanna. You can't see any animals nearby, but suddenly you feel a thrumming in the air around ...

Deep in the rainforest in a northern corner of the Republic of Congo, some of the most sophisticated monitoring of animal sounds on earth is taking place. Acoustic sensors are collecting large amounts ...

Wild elephants seem to address each other using distinctive, rumbling sounds that could be akin to individual names. "Sometimes another bottlenose dolphin will imitate somebody else's signature ...

Deep in the rainforest in a northern corner of the Republic of Congo, some of the most sophisticated monitoring of animal sounds on earth is taking place. Acoustic sensors are collecting large amounts ...