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Infrasonic calls are important, particularly for long-distance communication, [1] in both Asian and African elephants. For Asian elephants, these calls have a frequency of 14–24 Hz, with sound pressure levels of 85–90 dB and last 10–15 seconds. [15] For African elephants, calls range from 15 to 35 Hz with sound pressure levels as high as ...
Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns , and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic .
Elephant cognition is animal cognition as present in elephants. Most contemporary ethologists view the elephant as one of the world's most intelligent animals. With a mass of around 5 kg (11 lb), an elephant's brain has more mass than that of any other land animal, and although the largest whales have body masses twenty times those of a typical ...
Given Dr. Vyas’s input on the use of white noise, you probably already suspect that the answer to this question is generally no, it isn’t bad for babies or toddlers. There’s a big caveat ...
White noise for babies is a popular tool to help them fall asleep and stay asleep. Here's what parents need to know about safety.
The two baby elephants born at the Fresno zoo last month are growing big and strong, and just made their public debut in the zoo’s viewing area today. The calves, both male, were born to two ...
Dunstan Baby Language is a theory about infantile vocal reflexes as signals, in humans. The theory is that across cultures and linguistic groups there are five sounds, each with a meaning, that are used by infants before the language acquisition period. The hypothesis was developed by Australian former mezzo-soprano, Priscilla Dunstan, and has ...
Babbling. Not to be confused with Baby talk. A babbling infant, age 6 months, making ba and ma sounds. Babbling is a stage in child development and a state in language acquisition during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering articulate sounds, but does not yet produce any recognizable words.