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Croaking

An elephant producing an unusual clicking, purring, humming, or croaking sound of variable duration while they are relax...

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Squeak

An elephant exhaling through the trunk while pinching the trunk fingers together and making a high-frequency squeaking s...

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Squeal-Trumpet

When highly aroused such as during a Mating-Pandemonium, Bonding-Ceremony, or Greeting-Ceremony, elephants may produce h...

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Squelch

Often repeated wrinkling or ‘scrunching’ up of the trunk and forcing air through it to produce a ‘squelching’ sound. App...

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Truck-Like-Call

A highly unusual, idiosyncratic and learned call that sounds like a distant lorry, foghorn or didgeridoo with a fundamen...

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Trunk-Suction

Apparently blocking the end of the trunk and then forcefully sucking or blowing air into the sinues such that the sides ...

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