Scientists figure out the elephant word for "let's go"

https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/animals-ecology/elephant-communication-go-verb/

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egonallanon@lemm.ee · 48 pts · 2y

Another step forward in the elephant translation of super Mario.

arin@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y (7 replies)

so can we hear it now? where's the audio?

edit* found spectrogram midway thru https://peerj.com/articles/17767/#/reviews

jpreston2005@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Looked, still can't find it, where play button?

arin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (4 replies)

I didn't say i found an audio file

Haggunenons@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (3 replies)

I don't think an audio file would do much good unless you are an elephant or a similarly sized(with. Few exceptions) animal. It's infrasonic, so the only way to hear it would be to shift it up to our hearing range which would be a different sound. Elephants do make sounds we can hear, of course, but a lot of their communication is super long distance, which is really only realisticly doable with extremely low sounds.

arin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I just reviewed the sepctrogram and data, it's within hearing range, a portion is on the edge of 10hz which can barely be "heard" but we will notice the sound dully

Haggunenons@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

That's interesting, I was always taught that the hearing range of humans was 20hz-20kHz. Is it more of a body vibration or actually hearing at 10hz?

arin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

You can get rated subwoofers at 5hz it's definitely more of a feel for me but my girlfriend is way more sensitive to bass than me and i can hear 15hz dully already

howrar@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y

I see the image. Do you happen to know if the raw data is available? I want to pitch it up to human ranges to see what it sounds like.

Etterra@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y

Elephants in 2040: Oh shit, the pink death monkeys figured out how to listen in on us. Quick, everybody switch to pigmamoth!

ech@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y

Til elephants are streamers.