Elephants are awful creatures for a destiny of reasons . The latest one to be reassert by skill ? They can smell out rainstorm from 150 naut mi away . What ’s more amazing is that researcher think they do itby simply listeningto the sound of the air .
This discovery is the termination of a seven - year - foresighted study that tail elephant migration in Namibia . investigator imbed GPS receivers on nine elephant around the state and found a curious traffic pattern to their movement during the rainy season . When the storm were sometimes up to 150 international nautical mile aside , these elephants “ exhibit statistically valid non - random nigh - simultaneous change in movements ” that sent them in the way of the rainfall .
“ The elephants undergo these sudden migrations that previously have not been explained , ” Texas A&M prof Oliver Frauenfeld , who co - authored the work , tell Popular Science . “They need the rain . After a prolong ironic season , once the elephant hear the rain , they start locomote towards it , and it set aside them to get the water system sooner . ”
The researcher think that the uncanny meteorological power stem from their extraordinary hearing . We ’ve long known that elephantscommunicate using extremely low-down frequency sound , known as “ infrasounds , ” that are well below the human ambit of hearing . It ’s alone potential that the storm send out sound wafture that the elephants can also hear and respond to .
The promise is that this new insight into elephant movements will help oneself conservationist come up with strategies to keep the beautiful creatures out from poachers . Because by the prison term anyone hear a gunfire , it ’s too belatedly . [ PLOS ONEviaPopSci ]
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