Elephants: The Giants Who Never Forget
In short: A look into the complex communication, memory, and social intelligence of elephants.
A 1:09 short film in the series “Mysteries Explained”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: Colorado State University, “African elephants address one another with name-like calls − similar to humans”; Nature, “African elephants address one another with individually specific name-like calls”; Science, “How Low Can You Go? Physical Production Mechanism of Elephant Infrasonic Vocalizations”; Smithsonian Magazine, “How Elephants and Songbirds Are Helping Humans Communicate”; National Institutes of Health, “Noise matters: elephants show risk-avoidance behaviour in response to human-generated seismic cues”; Live Science, “Do elephants really 'never forget'?”; Smithsonian Profiles, “Smithsonian Profiles”; Smithsonian Magazine, “Scientists Are Using YouTube to Understand How Elephants Mourn Their Dead”; PLoS One, “Insightful Problem Solving in an Asian Elephant”; NCBI, “Memory-Based Navigation in Elephants: Implications for Survival Strategies and Conservation”.
Sources used in this film
- Colorado State University — African elephants address one another with name-like calls − similar to humans · View →
- Nature — African elephants address one another with individually specific name-like calls · View →
- Science — How Low Can You Go? Physical Production Mechanism of Elephant Infrasonic Vocalizations · View →
- Smithsonian Magazine — How Elephants and Songbirds Are Helping Humans Communicate · View →
- National Institutes of Health — Noise matters: elephants show risk-avoidance behaviour in response to human-generated seismic cues · View →
- Live Science — Do elephants really 'never forget'? · View →
- Smithsonian Profiles — Smithsonian Profiles · View →
- Smithsonian Magazine — Scientists Are Using YouTube to Understand How Elephants Mourn Their Dead · View →
- PLoS One — Insightful Problem Solving in an Asian Elephant · View →
- NCBI — Memory-Based Navigation in Elephants: Implications for Survival Strategies and Conservation · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: Colorado State University: African elephants address one another with name-like calls − similar to humans
- Also: Nature: African elephants address one another with individually specific name-like calls
- Also: Science: How Low Can You Go? Physical Production Mechanism of Elephant Infrasonic Vocalizations
- Also: Smithsonian Magazine: How Elephants and Songbirds Are Helping Humans Communicate
- Also: National Institutes of Health: Noise matters: elephants show risk-avoidance behaviour in response to human-generated seismic cues
- Also: Live Science: Do elephants really 'never forget'?
- Also: Smithsonian Profiles: Smithsonian Profiles
- Also: Smithsonian Magazine: Scientists Are Using YouTube to Understand How Elephants Mourn Their Dead
- Also: PLoS One: Insightful Problem Solving in an Asian Elephant
- Also: NCBI: Memory-Based Navigation in Elephants: Implications for Survival Strategies and Conservation
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