Updated 01.04.2026
Elephants with a rare “tuskless” genetic trait had a better chance of surviving Mozambique’s long civil war, financed in part by poached ivory. About a third of surviving elephants’ daughters have no tusks.
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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.
AI helps decipher what elephant herds are 'saying'
A news piece in Science highlights our new research showing that choruses of overlapping elephant rumbles carry the same kind of information about behavioral context as individual calls given in the same context.
The largest video and audio library of elephant behaviors.