Updated 02.10.2026
Listen to Victoria Gill speak to Sara Keen of the Earth Species Project about our latest research on elephant choruses published in the journal Scientific Reports.
If you have BBC Sounds you can listen to it here, otherwise we have included an audio version for you above.
'A window into its soul': The rare elephant behaviour that reveals the depths of their emotions
Isabelle Gerretsen interviews Dr. Joyce Poole about elephant grief captured in harrowing images by award winning photographer, Frederico Veronesi, of a young female Desert elephant carrying a dead infant.
Elephants rumble in chorus, and their overlapping calls carry clues about what the group is doing
Excellent coverage of our work in Earth.com: Elephants often rumble in overlapping choruses, and machine learning shows those calls carry clues about what the group is doing.
Elephants imitate each other when they produce deep rumbling sounds
The New Scientist: African savannah elephants use a variety of calls to communicate, and now machine learning has shown that they tune their deepest sounds to match those of other nearby elephants.
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