#elephant language

[comtedemoney]

Want to ‘Speak’ Elephant? Now You Can

A new website helps you translate human words and emotions into a form of elephant communication.

Copy and paste into a new tab: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/elephants-language-communication-translate-emotions-spd/

Fascinating article at National Geographic.

[wondertherapy]

Your voice tells elephants if you're a danger

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

-Benjamin Disraeli

Your voice tells elephants if you’re a danger 

Elephants may be better at understanding people than we are. Elephants have long been known to have incredible intelligence, and their own language (they even have their own word for “human”). Now, researchers from the University of Sussex have just discovered that to avoid danger, elephants can distinguish threatening people from non-threatening ones — just from hearing them speak.

How can elephants understand human language? How's researchers discover this amazing survival tactic? Read more wonder.