The sound tests were good, Jackson made an excellent portable infrasound source and we were ready to see how the elephants would react. When the speaker broadcast the infrasonic parts of the storm ...

An elephant can locate rain even when it’s hundreds of miles away by using their feet. They are able to pick up a storm’s infrasound, the low frequencies, which are undetectable to the human ear.

It catches the attention of other elephants, who then communicate. Furthermore elephants sense – or hear – infrasound and vibrations through their feet, allowing them to receive alarm signals from ...