In the Media
Peter Wrege on ELP
In the dense forests of Africa, there is a species of forest elephant that has proved very difficult to study. Indeed, even simple questions like how many elephants there are and where they are located have been impossible to answer. Peter Wrege, director of the Elephant Listening Project, describes the techniques and what has been learned...
April 18, 2017
Katy Payne on Elephants
Elephants in the wild seem to coordinate their movements even when widely separated. Male elephants seem to be able to find females in estrous even over long distances. Bioacoustics researcher Katy Payne and her colleagues have found that elephants use low frequency sounds to communicate. These sounds are mostly below the range of human hearing but...
April 17, 2017
Secret Language
In 2010 the CBS 60 Minutes film crew traveled to the Central African Republic to do a story on our research into the acoustic communication of forest elephants. It was an amazing and busy week! Constant changes of plan, new ideas to film, unplanned interviews, and elephants so interested in the filming process that we...
March 22, 2017