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© Video courtesy ElephantVoices.org: Joyce Poole and Petter Granli
Elephants Communicate While at Play
Researchers have found that elephants have hundreds of distinct signals and gestures. Elephant biologist and conservationist Joyce Poole and her husband, Petter Granli, founders of ElephantVoices, developed an online database of those signals, as described in an article on National Geographic's A Voice for Elephants blog. Among the categories of signals and gestures is "play." Watch a video of elephants at play as Joyce Poole narrates and explains their behavior.
Elephants communicate with each other:
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/animals/mammals-animals/elephants/elephant-gestures-play/
I also have met people in Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala and Tamilnadu in India and even in Indonesia, who can/ could talk to elephants in their own but different language/s and understand each other. Any how those people who know the language of animals are not Harvard or MIT or Oxford or Cambridge or IIT or IIM graduate or any top University graduate world over, or Ph. D. like me, but they are not less literate in their own domain is what I feel. They are Doctorate in their own field, if we recognize them, reward them, record how they do it, then learn from them, then only humanity will be benefited otherwise soon it will be a lost art or science. After, 50 years we'll again reinvent this wheel......thanks to humanity...for not respecting each other and spent time in war, hatred, egoism, egotism, and corruption. Long live humanity. Aum Shanti: This video proves that, but, this is visual language that we understand. I'm talking about the "Mahut" and "Care Takers" who can talk to Elephants and understand their suffereing, help them when ever they are in need....etc. I've seen it. Elephant telling it has stomach ache and then care taker providing it the needed medicines...etc...Dr. Ashish Manohar Urkude, India..ashish.urkude@gmail.com
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thank you for sharing this with all of us.in the wild .the elephant gaurds his space ,its and the pack,,including baby's, making them very fierce.I know that in capitivity elephants are killed beaten torchered in zoos and in all the circus,beaten to be submissive,until one day they go mad and lash out.why could'nt a zoo build huts with a big screen and as the people enter and hear the sound of the elephant and wonerful videos on the elephants gaurding ,playing etc.to educate.
i didnt knew that i didnt knew