This was on Animal Planet last night. Did anyone happen to see it?
http://animal.discovery.com/fansites/janeg...ein/tunein.html
It will be on again Saturday the 18th at 8 p.m. EST.
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I sooooo wanted to see that last night and missed it.. Thanks Jay!!
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I missed it too Jay, thanks for the heads up.
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I am such a big fan of Dr Goodall and her work .... 
(pic from her website)
(pic from her website)
Every time I see Dr. Goodall on TV I can't believe that I was lucky enough to meet here and witness Rick Noll interview her for the Willow Creek DVD. It was truly a high point.
I caught some of it. I liked it. Especially the African Gray Parrot. This parrot was placed in another room over 50 feet away from its owner, then the owner was shown pictures of different things and the parrot in the other room was saying what the owner was seeing. It was cool! I have never seen a bird with the vocabulary that this bird had. It was amazing! 
Did anyone watch this on Saturday?
I watched most of it, but lost interest in some of it. There was a researcher, I believe she was from Cornell University (I could be wrong there) who talked about infrasound and elephants. She talked about how the atmosphere around the elephant area seemed to be different when she would get near the area, so she recorded the sounds. I wish I understood more about this, and how we could hear the low sounds on the recording, but can't hear it when the elephants make the sound. Guess it's converted some way on tape that I don't know anything about.
She did say that in the wild, elephants can communicate this way for a range of up to 8 miles. Don't know how they know that, but that's what was said.
I watched most of it, but lost interest in some of it. There was a researcher, I believe she was from Cornell University (I could be wrong there) who talked about infrasound and elephants. She talked about how the atmosphere around the elephant area seemed to be different when she would get near the area, so she recorded the sounds. I wish I understood more about this, and how we could hear the low sounds on the recording, but can't hear it when the elephants make the sound. Guess it's converted some way on tape that I don't know anything about.
She did say that in the wild, elephants can communicate this way for a range of up to 8 miles. Don't know how they know that, but that's what was said.
Jane Goodalls intense interest in Bigfoot is really not know to the general public. Over the years she has received many audio tapes and written reports from people who have seen and recorded sounds made from these creatures. Jane, like others in the scientific field is waiting for physical evidence before putting their reputations on the line. What Jane Goodall presented in this Animal Planet special was to show animals have used different means of communication other than vocal sounds for eons. She went on to say some of this communication is like extra sensory perception (ESP). Who would ever think that she (Jane Goodall) would say such a thing! Now she can, scientific testing has shown it to be true. It is now up to us as researchers to take this information she presented and apply it to our field of research.
William Dranginis
Manassas, VA.
William Dranginis
Manassas, VA.
QUOTE(JayleeD @ Jun 20 2005, 09:30 AM)
Did anyone watch this on Saturday?
I watched most of it, but lost interest in some of it. There was a researcher, I believe she was from Cornell University (I could be wrong there) who talked about infrasound and elephants. She talked about how the atmosphere around the elephant area seemed to be different when she would get near the area, so she recorded the sounds. I wish I understood more about this, and how we could hear the low sounds on the recording, but can't hear it when the elephants make the sound. Guess it's converted some way on tape that I don't know anything about.
She did say that in the wild, elephants can communicate this way for a range of up to 8 miles. Don't know how they know that, but that's what was said.
I watched most of it, but lost interest in some of it. There was a researcher, I believe she was from Cornell University (I could be wrong there) who talked about infrasound and elephants. She talked about how the atmosphere around the elephant area seemed to be different when she would get near the area, so she recorded the sounds. I wish I understood more about this, and how we could hear the low sounds on the recording, but can't hear it when the elephants make the sound. Guess it's converted some way on tape that I don't know anything about.
She did say that in the wild, elephants can communicate this way for a range of up to 8 miles. Don't know how they know that, but that's what was said.
Jaylee,
This is a real and true thing. I can tell you from working with elephants that the infrasound is actually more felt than heard...and also the military has been working with infrasound weapons for quite some time. The woman I think you may have seen was Katy Payne? Because if it is her...she came and worked with our elephants for some time at PAWS...she told me a lot of stuff I did not know...one of the things that I have since witnessed over and over now is the elephants will hold stock still...with one foot up in the air and their ears out and they will move their head from side to side. This is called "Scanning" and they are actually sensing sound which they process through the vast chambers of spongy bone in their heads. They can in fact tell how far away another herd is and this behavior also answers many old mysteries about elephant society, particularly the mystery attending the ability of males to find females for breeding, and the ability of separated family groups to coordinate their patterns of movement for weeks at a time without losing communication or converging on the same scarce resources.
When you are near and elephant and they do this sound...it feels like a vibration going through your body...the sound is very very low...so it is very hard for the human ear to detect...but a lot of the sounds that elephants make were used in Jurassic Park...the very low rumbling sounds...
But anyway....I have seen the elephants many times adopt this behavior when trying to determine what they are hearing...here is a photo of one of our elephants doing it....
Sosha, I think this is fascinating. Thanks for the information. I'd heard about this many times, but never really understood what was taking place when the elephants were doing this.
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