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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:08 PM
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(If anyone remembers the Steve Martin records...)

http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/050701_elephant_sounds.html

Mlaika is a 10-year-old adolescent female African elephant living in Kenya in a group of semi-captive elephants. During the day she makes sounds you might expect.

"When she is with the other elephants, she makes normal elephant sounds," says Stephanie Watwood of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. "But at night, when she is by herself, she can hear the trucks from a nearby highway and imitates their sounds."

But why would an elephant imitate the sound of a truck? Watwood has a couple of suggestions.

"Perhaps it sounded like a distant elephant. She probably made the sounds to try and communicate with it," Watwood told LiveScience.
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 06:22 PM
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1. she sounds adorable. I love elephants.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 07:16 PM
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2. Honk if you love elephants, but worry about them actually returning
the love.
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