How Elephants Perceive Their World

Added: 2026-05-25

Elephants produce infrasound (low-frequency sounds below human hearing range) using the same physical mechanism as human speech and singing: air flows from their lungs past their vocal folds, causing them to vibrate. This controlled, sophisticated process allows elephants to communicate over long distances, with recent research revealing they use individually specific, name-like calls that can travel up to 10 kilometers.