Elephants Develop Human Alarm Call
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While the study was not conclusive that the sound created by the elephants is specifically used to alarm each other about humans, the recorded differences in the elephants’ alarm tones illustrates that the internal communications used by African elephant herds may be far more complex than previously thought.
The new information about elephant alarm calls arrives after Hillary and Chelsea Clinton published an op-ed piece in the Financial Times late last month calling for an across-the-board ban on ivory sales in the United States. The piece, which mentions the killing of 35,000 elephants and 1,000 rhinos last year as a result of the ivory trade, points out that in recent years, loopholes in ivory sanctions have allowed the business of traffickers to run rampant.
Sources:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/08/elephant-human-alarm-call_n_4921731.html?ref=topbar
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/140224-hillary-chelsea-clinton-ivory-elephants-animals-science-trade-africa-rhino/#.UxtUsvldXzo
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