Elephants are famous for their memory, but they are also excellent communicators.
Much of their conversation cannot be heard by humans at all.
They use very deep sounds that can travel for several kilometers.
The animals feel these sounds through their feet as well as their ears.
In this way, groups far apart can find each other in the dry season.
Researchers in Kenya have recently found something even more surprising.
Elephants seem to use a kind of name for each member of the family.
When a mother calls a certain name, only one young elephant answers.
Words in this story
- elephant
- a very big gray animal with a long nose
- be
- is / am / are / was
- famous
- known by many people
- memory
- the ability to remember
- also
- too
- excellent
- very good
- communicator
- someone who shares information well
- much
- a lot
- conversation
- a talk between people
- can
- to be able to
- hear
- to notice sound with your ears
- human
- a person
- use
- to do something with a thing
- very
- really; a lot
- deep
- going far down
- sound
- something you hear
- travel
- to go to places
- kilometer
- 1,000 meters
- animal
- a living creature
- feel
- to have a feeling in your body
- foot
- the part of the body at the end of the leg
- well
- as well as: and also
- ear
- the part of the body for hearing
- way
- a method; a road
- group
- several people together
- far
- a long way; much
- apart
- at a distance
- find
- to see what you were looking for
- dry
- without water
- season
- a part of the year
- researcher
- a person who studies something carefully
- have
- to own; helper verb (has tasted)
- recently
- not long ago
- even
- used to show something is surprising
- surprising
- not expected
- seem
- to appear to be
- kind
- a type
- name
- what someone or something is called
- member
- a person in a group
- family
- parents and children
- mother
- your mom
- call
- to phone someone
- certain
- particular
- only
- no more than; just
- young
- not old
- answer
- to reply