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Elephants communicate over miles using low-frequency vibrations

Elephants detect seismic infrasound waves through sensitive foot pads.

Elephants produce deep vocal rumbles below the limit of human hearing that travel as acoustic waves through the air and seismic waves through the ground. Specialized mechanoreceptors in their feet and trunk tip allow them to sense messages from distant herds over several kilometres.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Elephants detect seismic infrasound waves through sensitive foot pads. The figure is taken from San Diego Zoo, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a animals fact?: Yes. It sits on the Animals shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.