[kj] The elephant story - a touching tale

[Brendan]

Venturing more off topic than possibly ever before, I see your elephant's
trippy communication and raise you a guy getting his head caught up an
elephants arse:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG20gmDp7U0

I remember seeing it on telly years ago, they said on the show that they
couldn't find the guy in question and wanted to get in touch with him. As
if! Their video was a bit longer and it definitely looked real to me...


>

> "Like all highly social mammals elephants have a well-developed system of

> communication that makes use of all of their senses - hearing, smell,

> vision and touch. This includes an exceptional ability to detect

> vibrations.

> Acoustic communication takes a look at sound production and hearing in

> elephant communication; Chemical communication explains how elephants use

> various secretions and an acute sense of smell to communicate; Visual

> communication looks at how elephants make use of postures and displays and

> their sense of sight to communicate; Tactile communication describes how

> elephants make use of their sense of touch to communicate.

> Elephants communicate over a variety of distances from touching to perhaps

> 10 kilometers or more apart and they convey information about their

> physiological (e.g. sexual/hormonal, body condition, identity) and

> emotional (e.g. fearful, playful, joyful, angry, excited) state as well as

> communicating specific statements about their intentions or desires. Here

> we look at how elephants use the different mediums of communication and

> the actual mechanics of communicating."

> http://www.elephantvoices.org/index.php?topic=how_comm

>

> http://www.elephanttrust.org/resources.htm[[i repeat myself when under

> stress i repeat myself when under stress]]

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