Hey man, just wondering, what happen to your channel? I never get any notification for new videos even when i got bell on, and why ia you views really dying? Is UA-cam try to kill u guys?
@@JohnSmith-td7hd You need special equipment and computer software. Most speakers peak at around 20KHz (20,000Hz). Some electrical equipment produces ultrasonic sounds. For example the Samsung Galaxy S10 series phones have ultrasonic transducers. These are there to read you fingerprint and produce low amplitude high frequency sound waves short enough to fit between the ridges of your fingerprints. I'm sure the frequencies that ultrasonic fingerprint scanners use is pretty high... My calculation is 3.2ghz which is ridiculous and probably dead wrong, but soundwaves in this frequency range would fit between the ridges of a fingerprint (40-60 microns). That's extremely high and again probably wrong, but whether right or wrong you obviously can not hear these kinds of sounds so producing them is pretty useless for most people. Still a great way to do so is with piezoelectric crystals and an electrical circuit. Quartz resonates at a specific ultrasonic frequency when introduced to an electric current.
OMFG pls talk to the (youtube)guy that plays piano for- & with elephants ._. he doesn't understand why elephants like the lower tones so much more......
Gabbin with Gavin maybe they have good memory because Sheron the elephant will not let you live down that thing you did and keeps repeating it and sharing it with other elephants 😂
When I was a kid, my older brother managed to convince me of a remarkably similar explanation of elephant communication over great distances, his version attracting additional credibility by accounting for an elephant's unusually large ears and nose (trunk). Translated from 7 yr old to Adult, he said, "When too far apart to hear trumpeting calls, elephants use infrasonic flatulence to communicate." Worked for me.
That bit about the temperature inversion is really neat. I’ve also heard about them sensing vibrations through their feet, but I’m not sure how well that works
1. Wear ear defenders around elephants, as they may be performing a silent rock concert 2. Elephants got parabolic antennas long before they were cool 3. Imagine actually decoding the language of these elephants and creating computer software to converse with them, plus all the Nobel prize-worthy papers that go with it. And then extend this to pretty much every other animal out there.
@Radu Cristescu-At first that sounds like a really great idea, but do you really want to know what animals think of us? Sometimes I’m truly ashamed of being human and wish that I could apologize to them for all of the horrors that we’ve subjected them to.
@@gregbrockway4452 answer: *yes.* think about it like this, it’ll open up way more opportunities, and POSSIBLY make more humans see other animals as not “below” us and closer to equals, or respect them more (I’m not saying absolutely since humans don’t even look at other humans as equals)
@@gregbrockway4452 we’d be able to understand needs they have we didn’t even think about before or had a concept of, meaning we can slowly heal some of the damage we’ve created…
One of the primary distinctives about human communication is our near obsession with in depth narratives and stories. As far as wee can tell, most animal communication is about the immediate now, to prompt immediate action. Even whales and dolphins. *Elephants might be the only other animal that uses its communication for plain old storytelling*. Or they might not. In science, it's best to remain unsure if you don't have enough info than to adhere to an idea you particularly like.
What about when they proved crows can pass knowledge of threats? They did a study where a person wore a mask and carried a dead crow, causing some to be alarmed. From then on, the crows would alert the others everytime the person wore the mask around them, even at the point when none of the original crows were present anymore
Cool! I work at a zoo, and I have felt this rumble. They also use trunk and body movements and scent to communicate throughout the sight line of their habitat.
Nice and well put. Only one thing: As a scientist, I have been tracking lots of elephants and elephant herds in East Africa. When you are close you can hear and feel the deep sounds from the animals. When you are surrounded by wild elephants and hear these deep sounds, it gives me a "Jurassic park" feeling! So it is actually not true that you can't hear parts of their deep sound register. At least when you are close. Possibly, there is a difference between the African and the Indian elephant (the one in the zoos).
In the tsunamin catastrophe in Thailand 2004, several hours before the big waves hit the coastal areas, elephants was seen running from the beaches screaming and heading for higher grounds. I would guess they picked up those low frequency noises from the coming tsunami or the earthquake it self.
Makes sense and explains why elephants broke loose from their chains and ran up a mountain before their humans knew a sunami was coming which killed thousands of people..
@@noxabellus www.thoughtco.com/can-animals-sense-natural-disasters-373256 some links to sources at the bottom of that article if you would like to fact check. I didn't.
@@poonoi1968 thank you for linking this. I read about an eye witness account from a tourist during that horrible tsunami but could not remember where I read it so your link is different but reports the same thing. thanks again
This reminds me of something. Years ago someone I once knew said that having an elephant statue in a home prevented the home from getting struck by lightning. She claimed this was because elephants never get struck by lightning. Intersting.
This reminds me of this book I read a few years ago, 'The Elephant's Secret Sense' by Caitlin O'Connell about this same subject: how elephants communicate with infrasound. Was a pretty decent read, definitely made me more interested in the subject. But the book I got on orangutans, that unfortunately I can't remember the name of.. was just too good and got me way more interested in learning more about them and other apes. Elephants get enough attention in media anyways. Still love them though ❤️🐘
yeah, with how weird my ears are, my right ear can definitely pick up (not clearly, but it's hard to explain) some of these lower sounds at the Portland zoo (obviously the elephants were the source). it was kinda like "woah"
Elephants are really majestic animals, they have the best scent of all mammals, an impressive feauture to hold, may communicate long distances with their infrasound calls, have trunk that allow them to move things and are highly intelligent. If not by humans they would probably be really succesfull animals and be numbering at millions.
A zoo in Oregon? That would be the Washington Park Zoo. It has one of the best elephant exhibits in the country. Their exhibit is over 6 Acres. There are 5 elephants at last count I believe. And the only Borneo elephant in the United States lives there too.
I can't remember where I have seen that...it was some kind of documentary, where they tested a device which sends out this mating call and the elephants came quickly after the message was sent out. The interesting part was that this communication happened via the ground, so the sound was channeled into the ground, travelled there and was picked up by another elephant through its legs from the ground.
Nobody: Not One Soul: Elephants: Oh crap, a hurricane is coming next week. Forecasters: what? elephants: You might want to get a move on. Forecasters: How do you know this? Elephants: Can't you hear it, it's loud af man! Forecasts: I'm sorry, come again? You know I have radar and European models right? We're fine. Elephants: a'ight, suit yourself, have fun swimming loser. *_1 week later_* Forecasters: Evacuate the coast as soon as possible Category 3 Hurricane to make landfall in 12 hours. Elephants: Stupid *laughs in infrasonic*
We often comment about how each other might ‘see’ the world differently, well, elephants hear the world differently And for me, that just add another layer of beauty to Mother Nature
My neighbor refuses to accept that the bass notes from his stereo are particularly disturbing. I tried to explain the physics to him - it was like talking to a monkey.
Q - What do elephants use for long distance communication? (This joke rated PA - millennials may require parental assistance with punchline) A- Trunk calls.
It's crazy how elephants have been doing this for thousands of years but we're only now discovering this bc one Katharine Payne was sensitive to low pitch sounds.
0:45 This means nothing though. If you replay *anything* faster and at a higher frequency (presumably both do the same thing?), you can make anything as noisy as you want. You are squashing the total energy of the wave into something shorter, making it more energy dense. Squash it to a singularity and suddenly elephants are noisier than aircraft!
I think we were rushing a lot when we sent out those “instructions” on that golden to space that had a piece of us on it. We currently expect that if we find intelligent alien life, we’ll somehow be able to communicate with it… but right now we can’t even communicate with our OWN neighboring species. I think once we crack down how to actually GENUINELY communicate with animals- and not in the way of like fantasy stories, but make genuine conversation or the communication we can best get and understand when we think about how insects use pheromones and movement to communicate. And that’s just some of the insects, we don’t know the wide range of types of communication that could be happening with even our closest pets. Like our cats and dogs, we can sorta get what they want with how they physically act when we do stuff, or their personalities, but if they cry we have to do a trial and error type of thing… unless we really focus on figuring out a communication system that BOTH humans and dogs can understand. The main thing we got is stuff like tricks, but that only goes as far as us giving them a command and them getting a reward when they do it. If we can figure out how to make THEM try and ask for something (don’t tell me they aren’t smart enough to ask, they cry and whine about stuff all the time.) and make it consistent, we can build from there. If there’s one thing I learned, it’s that learning is all about the layers. We’ve sorta figured out how to do it with other humans, now we gotta do it more wide spread with pets, then from there we can try it with other animals. As soon as we introduce a concept that the pet can understand and learned from a young age, they could be able to teach it to their young. So I don’t know, that’s my thoughts about it. To do this though, we have to stop considering ourselves as the dominant species, this only works if we consider each other as equal. Meaning equal treatment to find a good solution of communication means more likely hood of variety and finding things we didn’t even know existed.
Your explanation for why sound waves travel upwards does not make sense, because sound waves are obviously longitudinal waves and not transversal as shown. Can someone explain the effect for longitudinal waves for me maybe? :)
A very low frequency sound wave that is strong enough is called a "shock wave," and it can tear down buildings and trees. That is how most of the damage is done by powerful air-burst bombs, including nuclear weapons, fuel-air devices, and aerial comet blasts like the Tunguska Event that flattened 2000 square kilometers of forest. Smaller versions can still shatter windows, knock you over, break ribs, and cause internal organ damage.
@@animistchannel2983 it doesn't seem to me to be correct to call a blast wave like those you mentioned, "sound". I know that sound is a pressure wave propagating through the air (or some other medium), and a blast wave from an explosion is essentially that too... still, I don't think we could say they're equivalent. Sound is typically produced via oscillations of some objects of matter coming into contact with each other. This might happen from very small scales in terms of size, and very fast timeframes (think: a cricket rubbing its legs together; the friction of tiny insect hairs affecting local air molecules). Sound is produced at larger scales and timeframes too (think: the vocal cords of an elephant brought into action with a sudden, large volume of air). These two examples are obviously going to sound very different, but they have effectively been created the same way: oscillation; vibration, friction. This is not exactly the case though with a large explosion occurring at some lofty elevation in the atmosphere. The sudden forceful expansion of air due to an extremely energetic release of radiant EM is something quite a bit different than the naturally occurring vibrational waves we know as 'sound'. No one really thinks of X-rays as light, even though that's precisely what they are. Photons are photons... some are just more energetic than others. Some are so energetic in fact, that they earn their own classification. Seems to me we should apply the same logic to the "sound" of a nuke, or whatever other calamitous cacophony might come crashing upon us..
The elephants impressive ear flaps apparantly has more to do with regulating body temperature than hearing. asknature.org/strategy/large-ears-aid-cooling/#.XdfwR1f0kps
Its seems logical to me that elephants would forage farther if storms were coming. It would be much easier physically to travel longer distances during cooler wet conditions than hot and dry ones. Plus the elephant may also reason its not as dangerous to stray farther from known reliable water sources when wet conditions are coming. Seems self evident but thats just me so...???
Since the Elephants can speak to one another better at night when the ground cools, I wonder if their extinct arctic relatives had an easier time of it in the colder temperature areas.
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Could you please show how to produce an ultrasonic sound?
Hey man, just wondering, what happen to your channel? I never get any notification for new videos even when i got bell on, and why ia you views really dying? Is UA-cam try to kill u guys?
@@JohnSmith-td7hd
You need special equipment and computer software.
Most speakers peak at around 20KHz (20,000Hz).
Some electrical equipment produces ultrasonic sounds. For example the Samsung Galaxy S10 series phones have ultrasonic transducers. These are there to read you fingerprint and produce low amplitude high frequency sound waves short enough to fit between the ridges of your fingerprints.
I'm sure the frequencies that ultrasonic fingerprint scanners use is pretty high... My calculation is 3.2ghz which is ridiculous and probably dead wrong, but soundwaves in this frequency range would fit between the ridges of a fingerprint (40-60 microns).
That's extremely high and again probably wrong, but whether right or wrong you obviously can not hear these kinds of sounds so producing them is pretty useless for most people.
Still a great way to do so is with piezoelectric crystals and an electrical circuit. Quartz resonates at a specific ultrasonic frequency when introduced to an electric current.
OMFG pls talk to the (youtube)guy that plays piano for- & with elephants ._.
he doesn't understand why elephants like the lower tones so much more......
Below 20 Hz? I don't know what elephants are saying but it must be very deep.
Barum
tsss
They're basso profundo
Dumb 🤣
You will pay dearly for that Dad joke.
Me: *swears under my breath*
Elephant 3km away: you talking smack?
are you telling me that elephant families just scream at each other over the fields to communicate, imagine organizing any family event like that
Isn't that how all families organise their events?
That's pretty much how parents did it in the early '80s. :)
Sounds like every family reunion I’ve gone to... especially after Aunt Millie taps her second 750 for the morning.
I'm sure it's more like Hungarian chanting.
yodeling very deeply XD
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody's there to see it.....it still happened, because a distant elephant heard it.
I thought it had to do with their memory. Turns out that was irrelephant
Gabbin with Gavin maybe they have good memory because Sheron the elephant will not let you live down that thing you did and keeps repeating it and sharing it with other elephants 😂
“Of course in Alabama the Tuscaloosa”
How are we supposed to talk about you behind your back if everyone is in on the secret?!
😂😂😂
You damn bastard coming in here, in my own damn house and smackin me with the giggle stick.
So all this time elephants have had their own enigma code.
Sure looks that way.
poles should run studies then
When I was a kid, my older brother managed to convince me of a remarkably similar explanation of elephant communication over great distances, his version attracting additional credibility by accounting for an elephant's unusually large ears and nose (trunk). Translated from 7 yr old to Adult, he said, "When too far apart to hear trumpeting calls, elephants use infrasonic flatulence to communicate." Worked for me.
Liar
@@the-birbo No, recent evidence suggests he may accidentally have been telling the truth - even though he THOUGHT he was lying.
@@timsullivan4566 good for you 👍
@@the-birbo Be less like this
Elephants: Delete this now
What's that? I heard a low rumble.🤨
@@Lightning_Lance they are coming
"Imagine being at a rock concert and not being able to hear anything"
My grandma can relate.
What?
@Junior Mynos-Many years ago I was almost front row at a Black Sabbath concert, for almost an hour afterward I couldn’t hear anything.
If it's too loud, you're not old enough.
Well, rocks don't make any sounds so of course you wouldn't hear anything when they're on stage. Duh!
Mia: OMG did you see Raj's broken tusk?
Betty: Haha he got his a** handed to him.
Raj: (3 miles away) I'm standing right here ya know!!!
Azael I wish I could like this more 😂
Underrated comment, take my like
I audibly laughed, you deserve it
That bit about the temperature inversion is really neat. I’ve also heard about them sensing vibrations through their feet, but I’m not sure how well that works
But do you know how elephants communicate over long distances?
By Elephone.
no
Ba dum tss..
Gold!
They place a trunk call. Ask your grandparents to explain if necessary.
Elephone is a Chinese phone Manufacturer...
“Call me back after 9pm,....that’s when I get my minutes” ~ elephants apparently
Werd2jaH this one needs more likes 😂
1. Wear ear defenders around elephants, as they may be performing a silent rock concert
2. Elephants got parabolic antennas long before they were cool
3. Imagine actually decoding the language of these elephants and creating computer software to converse with them, plus all the Nobel prize-worthy papers that go with it. And then extend this to pretty much every other animal out there.
@Radu Cristescu-At first that sounds like a really great idea, but do you really want to know what animals think of us? Sometimes I’m truly ashamed of being human and wish that I could apologize to them for all of the horrors that we’ve subjected them to.
number 3 is already in progress for certain dolphins
@@gregbrockway4452 answer: *yes.* think about it like this, it’ll open up way more opportunities, and POSSIBLY make more humans see other animals as not “below” us and closer to equals, or respect them more (I’m not saying absolutely since humans don’t even look at other humans as equals)
@@gregbrockway4452 we’d be able to understand needs they have we didn’t even think about before or had a concept of, meaning we can slowly heal some of the damage we’ve created…
someone has to address the elephant in the room
Scroll up. He posted about the same time you did.
A new reason to love elephants even more
Love those early thumbnails where it’s just the host looking like a doof
This was fascinating and highly informative. Love this channel more and more all the time.
One of the primary distinctives about human communication is our near obsession with in depth narratives and stories. As far as wee can tell, most animal communication is about the immediate now, to prompt immediate action. Even whales and dolphins.
*Elephants might be the only other animal that uses its communication for plain old storytelling*. Or they might not. In science, it's best to remain unsure if you don't have enough info than to adhere to an idea you particularly like.
What about when they proved crows can pass knowledge of threats? They did a study where a person wore a mask and carried a dead crow, causing some to be alarmed. From then on, the crows would alert the others everytime the person wore the mask around them, even at the point when none of the original crows were present anymore
Cool! I work at a zoo, and I have felt this rumble. They also use trunk and body movements and scent to communicate throughout the sight line of their habitat.
What do you call phantoms that haunt an elevator?
They’re elephants.
Me: I’ll have a shot of bleach, thank you.
Clorox or great value?
I can’t taste a difference but I heard there is a difference so I’d be safe and mix it
Just Some Guy without a Mustache please just show yourself out, no need to drink bleach, thank you
Would you like to add some pumpkin spice to that?
Nice and well put. Only one thing: As a scientist, I have been tracking lots of elephants and elephant herds in East Africa. When you are close you can hear and feel the deep sounds from the animals. When you are surrounded by wild elephants and hear these deep sounds, it gives me a "Jurassic park" feeling! So it is actually not true that you can't hear parts of their deep sound register. At least when you are close. Possibly, there is a difference between the African and the Indian elephant (the one in the zoos).
To quote Adam Neely:
*BASS*
The most beautiful of notes! 😍
or Davie405
@@Tirryna , brilliant bassist, but I can't think of any occasion where I've heard him speak.
So to quote Davie504: " " (with slaps.)
Just let elephants take the Earth from us, I accept our new huge grey trunk-having low-frequency talking wise masters
Great vid! Every word was something new I had NNNNOOO idea about!
listening to this and the constant references to high and low frequencies brought back strong memories of my old BASS 305 tracks...... #goodtimes.
*Animals are smarter than we give them credit for* 💪😳
Black Vito - Moneyology right. The gall of us
A whole herd fell to their deaths because one of them misstep off a cliff. Not too high on the bar but they obviously posses some intelligence.
Most animals have natural abilities equivalent to or greater than humans. Though we make up for it with technology and knowledge.
Not my cat... He doesn't understand how to push open a slightly open door
@@stephlrideout Nah, your cat's just lazy.
these animals are incredible so we shouldn't drive them extinct
I feel a faint throbbing as well
Sorry...
circle VIII what do u even mean
In the tsunamin catastrophe in Thailand 2004, several hours before the big waves hit the coastal areas, elephants was seen running from the beaches screaming and heading for higher grounds. I would guess they picked up those low frequency noises from the coming tsunami or the earthquake it self.
If only all humans made the same low frequency sound like from a cellphone or clothes
@@NotAMathGuy that's the point
And they have some big ass ears
Makes sense and explains why elephants broke loose from their chains and ran up a mountain before their humans knew a sunami was coming which killed thousands of people..
source?
@@noxabellus
www.thoughtco.com/can-animals-sense-natural-disasters-373256
some links to sources at the bottom of that article if you would like to fact check. I didn't.
@@poonoi1968 thank you for linking this. I read about an eye witness account from a tourist during that horrible tsunami but could not remember where I read it so your link is different but reports the same thing. thanks again
@@noxabellus see the link below as I have no idea where I read this years ago but the link below shows another source concerning it
@@iartistdotme hehe, courtesy of my good friend Google ;)
Much more interesting than "Elephant Talk" by King Crimson.
When you're binge watching scishow and you go from 2015 Michael to 2019 Michael o.o mucho difference
Elephants have been making long-distance booty calls far longer than humans have.
This reminds me of something. Years ago someone I once knew said that having an elephant statue in a home prevented the home from getting struck by lightning. She claimed this was because elephants never get struck by lightning. Intersting.
This reminds me of this book I read a few years ago, 'The Elephant's Secret Sense' by Caitlin O'Connell about this same subject: how elephants communicate with infrasound. Was a pretty decent read, definitely made me more interested in the subject. But the book I got on orangutans, that unfortunately I can't remember the name of.. was just too good and got me way more interested in learning more about them and other apes.
Elephants get enough attention in media anyways. Still love them though ❤️🐘
yeah, with how weird my ears are, my right ear can definitely pick up (not clearly, but it's hard to explain) some of these lower sounds at the Portland zoo (obviously the elephants were the source). it was kinda like "woah"
Dope episode guys!
Reacting *weeks* before a storm?! *300* km away?!?
Jeeeez that is mindblowing!
Elephants are really majestic animals, they have the best scent of all mammals, an impressive feauture to hold, may communicate long distances with their infrasound calls, have trunk that allow them to move things and are highly intelligent. If not by humans they would probably be really succesfull animals and be numbering at millions.
So awesome, thank you guys.
A zoo in Oregon? That would be the Washington Park Zoo. It has one of the best elephant exhibits in the country. Their exhibit is over 6 Acres. There are 5 elephants at last count I believe. And the only Borneo elephant in the United States lives there too.
This is the best Scishow in ages!
BUT THE ELEPHANT PUNS AND JOKES IN THE COMMENTS!!!!
It adds to it so much! XD
He blinked 22 times. Which is about 21 more times than the first video he hosted. Great improvement ☺️♥️
I can't remember where I have seen that...it was some kind of documentary, where they tested a device which sends out this mating call and the elephants came quickly after the message was sent out. The interesting part was that this communication happened via the ground, so the sound was channeled into the ground, travelled there and was picked up by another elephant through its legs from the ground.
3:20 also this is why you can yell across a cool lake :P
The thumbnail
1:17 I'm *pretty sure* the speed of sound is not that dependent on frequency, and both sound waves should move at the same speed.
Nobody:
Not One Soul:
Elephants: Oh crap, a hurricane is coming next week.
Forecasters: what?
elephants: You might want to get a move on.
Forecasters: How do you know this?
Elephants: Can't you hear it, it's loud af man!
Forecasts: I'm sorry, come again? You know I have radar and European models right? We're fine.
Elephants: a'ight, suit yourself, have fun swimming loser.
*_1 week later_*
Forecasters: Evacuate the coast as soon as possible Category 3 Hurricane to make landfall in 12 hours.
Elephants: Stupid *laughs in infrasonic*
We often comment about how each other might ‘see’ the world differently, well, elephants hear the world differently
And for me, that just add another layer of beauty to Mother Nature
Mind. Blown.
sound just turning up and away from you is just hilarious
All I can hear is the sound of silence.
Elephants are so intelligent, it’s incredible
thank you for this video
My mind just exploded !!!
My neighbor refuses to accept that the bass notes from his stereo are particularly disturbing. I tried to explain the physics to him - it was like talking to a monkey.
I clicked because I misread the title as secret elephant luggage.
You can imagine my disappointment😔
The luggage isn't much of a secret, we know they keep it in their trunk
Elephants have wifi, their own version of messenger
I didn’t really need yet another another reason to love elephants - but now I have one :)
It's thought that T-rexes spoke like this, but even louder.
Q - What do elephants use for long distance communication?
(This joke rated PA - millennials may require parental assistance with punchline)
A- Trunk calls.
You mean it's a B joke. As in Boomer.
It's crazy how elephants have been doing this for thousands of years but we're only now discovering this bc one Katharine Payne was sensitive to low pitch sounds.
0:45 This means nothing though. If you replay *anything* faster and at a higher frequency (presumably both do the same thing?), you can make anything as noisy as you want. You are squashing the total energy of the wave into something shorter, making it more energy dense. Squash it to a singularity and suddenly elephants are noisier than aircraft!
Start hiring elephants to do daily weather reports
This is really cool. It sounds similarish to radio waves but instead of em waves they are sound waves.
And obviously no one at scishow thought about telling us HOW they produce those sounds...
They might not know yet
They big
be loud af if an elephant is charging at you, maybe it would be scared away
Elephants
Hmm yes, I can picture an elephant miles away going....
Alan! Alan! Alan! Al! Alan! Steve!
That early thumbnail.
I think we were rushing a lot when we sent out those “instructions” on that golden to space that had a piece of us on it. We currently expect that if we find intelligent alien life, we’ll somehow be able to communicate with it… but right now we can’t even communicate with our OWN neighboring species.
I think once we crack down how to actually GENUINELY communicate with animals- and not in the way of like fantasy stories, but make genuine conversation or the communication we can best get and understand when we think about how insects use pheromones and movement to communicate. And that’s just some of the insects, we don’t know the wide range of types of communication that could be happening with even our closest pets.
Like our cats and dogs, we can sorta get what they want with how they physically act when we do stuff, or their personalities, but if they cry we have to do a trial and error type of thing… unless we really focus on figuring out a communication system that BOTH humans and dogs can understand.
The main thing we got is stuff like tricks, but that only goes as far as us giving them a command and them getting a reward when they do it. If we can figure out how to make THEM try and ask for something (don’t tell me they aren’t smart enough to ask, they cry and whine about stuff all the time.) and make it consistent, we can build from there.
If there’s one thing I learned, it’s that learning is all about the layers. We’ve sorta figured out how to do it with other humans, now we gotta do it more wide spread with pets, then from there we can try it with other animals. As soon as we introduce a concept that the pet can understand and learned from a young age, they could be able to teach it to their young.
So I don’t know, that’s my thoughts about it. To do this though, we have to stop considering ourselves as the dominant species, this only works if we consider each other as equal. Meaning equal treatment to find a good solution of communication means more likely hood of variety and finding things we didn’t even know existed.
So, apparently "acoustics" isn't on the approved vocabulary list. I'm sure "the physics of sound" works just as well...
trunk' line', n. 1.a major long distance transportation line. (It all makes sense now.)
Seen a documentary about this like 20 years ago.
Clay More What documentary? I’m interested.
@@shinerstheseagull Nature, Nova , it was on PBS out of Detroit
Awesome animals, in so many ways, this information doesn't surprise me.
Elephants are fantastic creatures!
Elephant feet can detect stomps from 32 km and can hear storms from 500 km compared to 30 km to us and they flee from tsunamis first before people do.
Yeah you did your homework on this one brother good job 💪👍👊
Lady elephants: Anyone want to mate?
Male elephants: *Immediately come running*
Stupid question, but have we looked into detecting storms through their low waves the way elephants do? Or is our detection more advanced to bother?
You guys, and Anton Petrov posted at the same time. Choices, choices!
😎🤪
is this why elephants never forget? is it because they can really just talk with others from far away?
Your explanation for why sound waves travel upwards does not make sense, because sound waves are obviously longitudinal waves and not transversal as shown. Can someone explain the effect for longitudinal waves for me maybe? :)
Yes, thank you for mentioning that!
If a sound can be loud enough to hurt or even kill someone, will it be just as dangerous if it's outside the 20-20k Hz range?
A very low frequency sound wave that is strong enough is called a "shock wave," and it can tear down buildings and trees. That is how most of the damage is done by powerful air-burst bombs, including nuclear weapons, fuel-air devices, and aerial comet blasts like the Tunguska Event that flattened 2000 square kilometers of forest. Smaller versions can still shatter windows, knock you over, break ribs, and cause internal organ damage.
@@animistchannel2983 it doesn't seem to me to be correct to call a blast wave like those you mentioned, "sound". I know that sound is a pressure wave propagating through the air (or some other medium), and a blast wave from an explosion is essentially that too... still, I don't think we could say they're equivalent.
Sound is typically produced via oscillations of some objects of matter coming into contact with each other. This might happen from very small scales in terms of size, and very fast timeframes (think: a cricket rubbing its legs together; the friction of tiny insect hairs affecting local air molecules). Sound is produced at larger scales and timeframes too (think: the vocal cords of an elephant brought into action with a sudden, large volume of air). These two examples are obviously going to sound very different, but they have effectively been created the same way: oscillation; vibration, friction. This is not exactly the case though with a large explosion occurring at some lofty elevation in the atmosphere. The sudden forceful expansion of air due to an extremely energetic release of radiant EM is something quite a bit different than the naturally occurring vibrational waves we know as 'sound'.
No one really thinks of X-rays as light, even though that's precisely what they are. Photons are photons... some are just more energetic than others. Some are so energetic in fact, that they earn their own classification. Seems to me we should apply the same logic to the "sound" of a nuke, or whatever other calamitous cacophony might come crashing upon us..
Man what a surprise the animal with giant ears, is good at hearing.
The elephants impressive ear flaps apparantly has more to do with regulating body temperature than hearing.
asknature.org/strategy/large-ears-aid-cooling/#.XdfwR1f0kps
Elephants: bass incarnate
Computer models even often get the weather forecast wrong. Maybe we should start asking elephants instead.
Gotta love elephants.
elephants must hate our planes and all
Its seems logical to me that elephants would forage farther if storms were coming. It would be much easier physically to travel longer distances during cooler wet conditions than hot and dry ones. Plus the elephant may also reason its not as dangerous to stray farther from known reliable water sources when wet conditions are coming. Seems self evident but thats just me so...???
I had no idea the direction of sounds could change based on air temperature.
That's weird! But kewl.
3:25 wait, is that why everything seems louder at night? Or at least part of why
Probably not
Elephant are smart even without studing anything.
You need a really nice subwoofer to speak elephant
Since the Elephants can speak to one another better at night when the ground cools, I wonder if their extinct arctic relatives had an easier time of it in the colder temperature areas.