Re: Low Frequencies

[Ronald Orenstein <ornstn@inforamp.net>]

At 02:06 PM 1/21/97 +0100, you wrote:
>Apparently  elephants use this form of communication for distances (I have
heard 
>quoted) of up  to 200 km.

Good grief!  No, perhaps 4-5 miles tops are the figures I have heard (and
that under ideal conditions).  This was worked on by Katherine Payne at
Cornell.
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