
How Can an Elephant Squeak Like a Mouse?
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Elephants Can Learn to Squeak
The sound is made when an elephant presses air out between its tensed lips, which produces a noisy vibration. One particularly talented packyderm, a female called paon, could squeak and snort at the same time. The researchers found that when mamma is a squeaker, the kids are too. Which means that elephants may have something to teach us about the development of human language.
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