The Central African Republic is the setting for the latest installment in the "Wild Sounds" series. Katy Payne is a biologist at Cornell University who has spent more than two decades interpreting the ...

Here are some African elephants having a good time. (SOUNDBITE OF ELEPHANTS TRUMPETING) GARCIA-NAVARRO: For almost half a century, Joyce Poole has been listening to what elephants have to say and ...

With their trumpet-like calls, elephants may seem like some of the loudest animals on Earth. But we can’t hear most of the sounds they make. The creatures produce low-frequency noises between 1 to 20 ...

Everybody from a child knows that elephants trumpet. Over the past decades research in general and at the University of Vienna has mainly studied the elephants low-frequency rumble. Its fundamental ...

The trumpeting roar of an elephant is loud. But scientists living with herds in the forests of central Africa say the deep rumbles that humans... To Decode Elephant Conversation, You Must Feel The ...

Internet users adored a video of elephants playfully wading through water, with their joyful sounds described as “the best sound in the world.” A heartwarming video of two elephants wading and playing ...

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 & ...

Wild Asian elephants slink quietly away at the sound of a growling tiger, but trumpet and growl before retreating from leopard growls, researchers have found. The work could help Indian farmers ...

Communication is crucial for elephants that live in complex multi-tiered social systems. Apart from their iconic trumpets uttered through the trunk, Asian elephants also produce species-specific ...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with researcher Joyce Poole about the release of her African Elephant Ethogram —the most comprehensive audiovisual library ever made of African elephant behavior. Here ...

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 ...