A personal account of groundbreaking scientific discovery--the infrasonic communication among elephants--that beautifully details the astonishing relationship between the animal world and our own.
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A personal account of groundbreaking scientific discovery--the infrasonic communication among elephants--that beautifully details the astonishing relationship between the animal world and our own.
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Add this copy of Silent Thunder: in the Presence of Elephants to cart. $27.00, very good condition, Sold by Robinson Street Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Binghamton, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by SIMON & SCHUSTER.
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Used; Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes Animal BehaviourVery Good Copy, Scientific discovery is not always the result of a careful accumulation of data or a measured consideration of the facts. Sometimes it takes a leap of imagination. Katy Payne, a naturalist and conservationist, took just such a leap and made an amazing discovery about how elephants communicate. And that was only the beginning of her adventure. In 1984, Katy Payne visited the elephants at Washington Park Zoo in Portland. Oregon. She had been studying whale songs for the last fifteen years, and she was curious about the ways that elephants--the largest living land mammals--communicated with each other. What Payne observed in her first week seemed, at the time, to be little cause for scientific excitement. But on her flight home, she flushed back to a childhood experience of singing in the church choir. Suddenly she realized that she had felt, in the presence of the elephants, a deep throbbing in the air just like the lowest notes of the church organ. Payne and two colleagues were soon able to show that elephants are powerful infrasound--sound pitched too low for the human ear to hear--in communication. This "silent thunder" allows elephants to intract over long distances. This brilliant, unorthodox, nonlinearless was the basis of her discovery of infrasonic communication among elephant and is typical of Payne's work as a naturalist. It also infuses this deeply felt and observed book with an extraordinary spirit, Payne and her colleagues went on to do important field research on elephant communication in Kenya, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. But in 1991 the peaceful rhythms of their work were violently interr.
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New in fine dust jacket. BRAND NEW. Excellent condition. Never read or opened. DJ has slight shelf-wear. May have remainder mark. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 288 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
Add this copy of Silent Thunder: in the Presence of Elephants to cart. $73.71, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Simon & Schuster.
