The Elephant's Secret Sense
The Hidden Life of the Wild Herds of Africa
While observing a family group of elephants in the wild, Caitlin O'Connell, a young field scientist, noticed a peculiar listening behavior. A matriarch she had been watching for months turned her massive head and lifted her foot off the ground. As she scanned the horizon, the other elephants followed suit, all facing the same direction. O'Connell soon made a groundbreaking discovery: the elephants were listening through limbs, feeling the ripples of the earth's surface for approaching friends and enemies. Through their feet, toenails, trunks, and other, subtler modes of communication, these enormous animals were communicating to one another,…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4165-3909-4
- EAN: 9781416539094
- Produktnummer: 14614137
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 617 KB
- Abbildungen: notes; index
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