Updated 01.04.2026
Elephant expert Joyce Poole poses for a photo. She has studied elephants for almost 5 decades and along with her husband has created the elephant ethogram, the first comprehensive library of thousands of elephant behaviors. There's nothing like this for any other species on earth.
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Zoo Elephants Have a Right to Liberty, Group Tells Hawaii's Top Court
ElephantVoices Drs Joyce Poole and Mickey Pardo affidavits draw on decades of study of elephant intelligence, communication and social behaviour to show why captivity cannot meet the needs of elephants.
Decoding Elephant Conversations With Machine Learning
Rachel Nuwer interviews Joyce Poole and Sara Keen about their latest discovery that elephant choruses are not random assortments of overlapping calls, but organized, coordinated signals, some of which show convergence.
What is Scholar Advocacy for Animals? Dr. Lori Marino interviews Dr. Stacy Lopresti-Goodman and Dr. Mickey Pardo
Listen to ElephantVoices Dr. Mickey Pardo at 31:04 speak about how he studies animal communication to understand what animals know, think and feel and how it can help us help them.
The largest video and audio library of elephant behaviors.