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Elephants detect ground vibrations

Титульна AI-згенерована ілюстрація / AI-generated cover illustration. African elephant family on the savanna at dusk, illustrating the fact's subject.
African savanna elephant in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda.
African elephants in the Maasai Mara, Kenya.
AI-generated educational scene showing a vocalizing elephant group and an illustrative soil cutaway with seismic wavefronts traveling toward another group.
AI-generated educational close view of an elephant foot with an illustrative tissue cutaway and ground vibrations.
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Титульна AI-згенерована ілюстрація / AI-generated cover illustration. African elephant family on the savanna at dusk, illustrating the fact's subject.

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Elephants can detect low-frequency vibrations that travel through the ground. Such vibrations can be produced by loud calls from other elephants and may help animals detect signals at a distance. Sensitive receptors in the feet may contribute to detection, but the precise roles of the feet and hearing system are still being studied.