News tagged with elephant communication

When it comes to elephant love calls, the answer lies in a bone-shaking triangle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many a love-besotted soul has declared they would move the world for their true love, but how many actually accomplish that task in their quest to unite with a lover?

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created Feb 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Tracking endangered elephants with satellite technology

A hundred years ago wild elephants on the Malay Peninsular could be counted in their thousands — now there are less than 1500. Over the last century around 50 per cent of forest cover in Peninsular Malaysia ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Inhabitants of Madrid' ate elephants' meat and bone marrow 80,000 years ago

Humans that populated the banks of the river Manzanares (Madrid, Spain) during the Middle Palaeolithic (between 127,000 and 40,000 years ago) fed themselves on pachyderm meat and bone marrow. This is what ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Male dolphins build complex teams for social success

(PhysOrg.com) -- Male dolphins not only form a series of complex alliances based on their close relatives and friends but these alliances also form a shifting mosaic of overlapping geographic ranges within ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

WUSTL anthropologists’ work prompts Republic of Congo to enlarge national park

Research by Washington University in St. Louis anthropologist Crickette Sanz, PhD, and colleague David Morgan, PhD, has spurred the Republic of Congo to enlarge its Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park boundaries ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Science overturns view of humans as naturally 'nasty'

Biological research increasingly debunks the view of humanity as competitive, aggressive and brutish, a leading specialist in primate behavior told a major science conference Monday.

Biology / Other

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 68

Mammal secrets

You probably don’t need a field guide to identify a raccoon. Or a grey squirrel. You’re not likely to say, “that big white shaggy beast, hmm, yes, might be a polar bear. Let’s check.” ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Tiger captured for first time using Northern India wildlife corridor

The New Year brought a new surprise for wildlife monitoring teams near Northern India’s Kaziranga Tiger Reserve, as a tiger was captured for the first time using one of the important wildlife corridors ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New study of hunter-gatherers suggests social networks sparked evolution of cooperation

Ancient humans may not have had the luxury of updating their Facebook status, but social networks were nevertheless an essential component of their lives, a new study suggests.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Malawi reserve resurrected by 'Noah's Ark' project

Antelope, elephants, leopards and lions are grazing and reproducing again in a reserve in Malawi, resurrected through a repopulation project of biblical proportions.

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Memory like a fish

(PhysOrg.com) -- Heard the one about the goldfish with the short memory? It is a commonly held belief that fish are the polar opposites to elephants. They always forget.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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