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How Do Elephants Say Hello? Reunions Lead to Ear Flapping, Rumbling and Trunk Swinging in Greeting
New research explores how African savannah elephants use vocalizations, gestures and secretions when they meet up with ...
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Elephants say 'hello' to friends by flapping their ears and making little rumbly noises
W hen elephants reunite with friends, they greet each other with ear flaps, rumbles and other deliberate sounds and gestures, ...
Elephants Use Feces to Say Hello
Scientists have discovered the strange way that African elephants like to communicate with each other: by defecating. The new ...
Study explores elephant greetings and how they change based on social relationships
As it happens, researchers are learning more about how the animals greet each other, and how relationships among the social ...
For elephants, like people, greetings are a complicated affair
People greet each other in a variety of ways. They might say "hello," "guten tag," "hola," "konnichiwa" or "g'day." They ...
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Elephants exhibit 20 complex greeting rituals, unveils study
The study, published in Communications Biology, identified approximately 20 movements associated with elephant greetings.
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Elephants say 'hello' to friends by flapping their ears and making little rumbly noises
When elephants reunite with friends, they greet each other with ear flaps, rumbles and other deliberate sounds and gestures, new research shows. The study, which was published May 9 in the journal ...
No one talks to a donkey
Elephants are too big to notice little grey donkeys like me. Nobody talks to a donkey. Oh well, never mind. On I go, carrying ...