Communication
Elephants run away from danger calls/sounds from elephants above ground versus underground.
Baby elephants share this characteristic with human babies.
What is suckling (thumb/trunk)?
Elephants bathe in this.
What is muddy water
Their vocal cords are ___ larger than ours.
What is 8x?
Elephant trunks can do these things/ aid with.
What is breathing, drinking, eating, making noise, smelling, communication.
The name of the elephant that paints from the presentation.
Who is Suda?
These are the two types of sound waves produced by elephants.
What is Low Frequency and High Frequency?
The length of an elephant pregnancy.
22 months
Elephant herds consist of mostly females for this reason.
Males leave during adolescence.
Elephants are able to pick up these sound waves in their feet because of them.
What are Touch receptors/Pacinian corpuscles?
Two special abilites of elephants. (excluding their high hearing abilities.
What is painting and math skills?
One way elephants positively and negatively impact the environment.
Seed dispersal (positive) and Tree damage
The scientific name for the type of communication between elephants from the video.
What is infrasound?
Elephants can experience this disorder due to their sensitive nature.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Dissorder?
(PTSD)
African and Asian Elephants are a threatened species for these two reasons.
Poaching for Ivory and habitat destruction.