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Identifying Elephants
We can identify individual elephants by the unique configuration of the folds on their ears. This shot of Amali's right ear (taken by the staff of the Uda Walawe Elephant Research Project), shows ...
Elephants at Waterhole
Uda Walawe National Park has distinct wet and dry seasons. During the wet season, small pools and puddles like this one abound throughout the park. However, in the dry season, the puddles dry up,...
Elephant Social Interaction
I took this photo on the final day of my pilot season in January of last year. A sub-adult male known as [353] was holding the tail of an unidentified sub-adult female with the tip of his trunk. ...
Asian Elephant Group
This group is bunching together, which is a defensive behavior. Asian elephant groups are made up of adult females and their offspring, but unlike African elephants, an Asian elephant female may b...
Equipment
Just borrowed a bunch of recording equipment from the Macauley Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Departure time is fast approaching! https://vimeo.com/82429506
Syntax in squeaks?
This spectrogram is a visual representation of Asian elephant squeaks-- 12 squeaks, to be precise, uttered in rapid succession by the same individual. Just looking at it, you can tell that the squ...
Thunderclap!
To help spread the word about my project, I've started something called a Thunderclap. The way this works is that if I can get 100 people to agree to share my project on Facebook, Twitter, or Tumb...
Blog post about my project
Esteban Rivas, a psychologist and philosopher interested in animal communication, has just featured an article about my research on his two blogs. Check it out at one of these two links!http://ani...
New Youtube Video
Hi everyone,Check out this new youtube video, where I talk about my project and show footage of the Uda Walawe elephants!Asian Elephants