Meet the elephant
Elephants use infrasound — rumbles too low for human ears — that travel for kilometres through air and even through the ground.
Friends and family
Families are led by the oldest female, who remembers waterholes from decades ago.
The whole herd helps raise a calf — aunts, sisters and cousins all babysit.
How they talk
Rumbles, trumpets and foot-stomps that other elephants detect through their feet.
How clever are they?
Elephants use tools, cooperate to solve problems and pass the mirror self-recognition test.
What they feel
Elephants stay near the bodies of dead family members and touch them gently with their trunks.
Superpower: Trunk with 40,000 muscles
An elephant trunk can lift a log or pick up a single blade of grass.
👀 See the world through their eyes
Hearing
They hear through their feet, sensing vibrations from kilometres away.
Smell
Elephants have more smell genes than any other known mammal.
🤓 Did you know?
- Elephants recognise themselves in a mirror.
- Elephant rumbles travel kilometres through the ground.
- Whether elephants grieve the way humans do is still being studied.scientists are still studying this
Living alongside people
Elephants are poached for ivory, used in tourism, and protected in reserves and sanctuaries.