If you are unaware of the connection
between Barry White , the soul singer, and elephants, you are about to find
out:
According to the Guardian of August
3rd 2012 , the headline being `Mystery of elephants` Barry White
impression`:
Elephants are the Barry Whites of
the animal kingdom, research has shown. They produce their own version of the
soul singer`s seductive base tones – only much, much deeper. An elephant`s
infrasound rumble, often too low for the human ear, is used to keep herds
together, and by males to find mates. It allows the animals to communicate over
distances of up to six miles.
The low-pitched elephant calls, on a
frequency range below 20Hz, may seem to have little in common with human
singing, but researchers have confirmed that both are produced in the same way.
Experts wondered why, as with a cat`s purr, elephant infrasound was generated by
muscular twitching movements of the vocal chords. Instead, it transpires, the
sounds are made by air being blown through the larynx, as human singers do. The
German team carried out tests on a larynx removed from an African elephant at a
Berlin
1. The Guardian August
3rd 2012.
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