Nature

Elephants talk to each other in rumbles too low for humans to hear

In 1984, bioacoustics researcher Katy Payne noticed a throbbing sensation in the air near elephants at a zoo and suspected it was sound below human hearing. Field recordings confirmed elephants communicate over long distances using infrasound, deep rumbles that can travel several kilometres through the ground and air, letting separated herds coordinate movements.

Katy Payne, William Langbauer, Elizabeth Thomas, Elephant infrasound communication — Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 1986 (discovery, 1984)

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