How elephants 'hear' with their feet, and how you can do it, too

Sat, 12/16/2023 - 05:52

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• Elephants use their feet to sense vibrations in the ground.
• This is one of the ways that they "hear" the things happening around them.
• Humans and other animals actually have a similar sense.

You might think that elephants get all the hearing they need with their big ears. But it turns out the colossal mammals also use their feet.

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Science, animals, elephants, sound, american-museum-of-natural-history

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How elephants 'hear' with their feet, and how you can do it, too