Decode the language of the elephant

The seemingly normal gestures and behaviors of elephants have been discovered by scientists today, showing that their communication methods are also extremely rich and unique.

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In a newly published study of the Amboseli Trust for Elephants non-profit organization about 40-year elephant behavior in Amboseli National Park in Kenya proved that this animal uses a delivery system. Next is more complicated than what we've identified so far.

They also use body language and sound but in a completely different way from humans, in which the tap plays an important role to help them express emotions such as rubbing their shoulders or taping each other like it is a greeting or a roll of a hose lower than ivory is like a curse: 'Come and play!'

Elephant language:

- Tap to create an S shape or straighten it : show curiosity or expect something

- Rub shoulders together : greeting friends

- Wrap the hose together: greeting to another elephant

- Prickle hose : showing confidence, strong

- Suck : reassure the mind, reduce stress

- Lower the tap to lower ivory : invite to play

- Stand side by side and roar loudly : the departure sign 'Let's go!'

A baby elephant often reassures himself or relieves stress by sucking his hose like the way children suck their thumbs. The female elephant's flirt is also discovered by grazing the 'object' shoulder with eyes wide as a sign of green light.

Before deciding on the direction of the whole herd, the elephant will have a discussion that begins with a loud roar as an expression of ' Let's start! '. After that, they discuss until agreeing that the whole group will move in the same direction. The elephants sometimes take more than an hour to decide which direction to go and the process of discussing them is an extremely interesting experience for scientists in this research project.

Previous research has shown that elephants are extremely emotional when they show sympathy and sadness at the death of their fellow humans . Not only that, but they also discovered other rich expressions of them such as when a young elephant approached the dangerous electric fence, the children in the herd expressed concern, the attitude of caution with the chatter. You tell me until you leave the elephant.

With the study of nearly 2,500 elephants, scientists believe that this animal has the same intellectual development as the gibbons, but not as high as those of whales or humans.

One thing is for sure, elephants live in a community with a very complex social system, whose core values ​​are family units, made up of related female children and their children. The overlapping relationships between these families also create multi-level differentiation among different groups of relatives, clans and sub-populations.