Elephants Could Hear Rain Over Hundreds of Kilometers
Those big ears are not just there for show . Namibian elephant detect rainstorm at a aloofness of as much as 280 kilometer away , and will travel towards them in search of fresh water and the ontogenesis that comes after rain . Sound come out to be the most likely , although still unconfirmed , mechanism . This is more than the distance from the center of New York to Baltimore , or London to Manchester - although in either case the stochasticity of industrial animation might confuse an immigrant elephant ’s senses ....