Elephants trade messages through the ground. Sensitive foot pads and trunk tips detect low-frequency rumbles and distant thunder, helping families coordinate movements across kilometres. Communication you can feel, not hear.

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This tiny, newborn caterpillar buzzes to defend its territory The 2-millimeter-long bug is among the smallest animals ever observed performing territorial displays

“When an intruder arrived, the resident caterpillar started vibrating more insistently, producing the sounds by striking against the leaf and also wriggling and scraping its body.”

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#animalcommunication
#sensoryecology
#seismiccommunication

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