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about whales and elephants ...
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"I heard a faint rumble and the animals shifted, but Pet held her own.
The air thrilled a little: I felt happy for Pet.
Here came Jim with the grain and hay. All the elephants moved to
greet him, and I enjoyed his gentle voice, and again sensed a kind of
thrill in the air.
Here stood little Sunshine reaching toward me through the bars; behind
her, her mother standing by, to ʻturn me into noodlesʼ should I prove
untrustworthy. The airplaine throbbed, reminding me of the faint
throbbing, or thrilling, or shuddering I´ d felt at that moment. It had
been like the feeling of thunder but there´ d been no thunder. There had
been no loud sound at all, just throbbing and then nothing.
I felt what I could not hear. My ears were approaching the lower limit
of their ability to perceive vibrations as sound.
Among animals only the great fin and blue whales were able to make
powerful infrasonic calls. No land animal approached the mass or power
of these great mammals of the sea, but now I wondered: might
elephants, too, be using infrasound in communication?"
Katy Payne, biologist, 'Silent Thunder, the hidden voice of elephants' (1998), Jonathan Ball Publishers, pp. 20-21
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Tanja Kristine Böhme