Bioacoustics of Elephantidae

Recordings

209 in audioBlast.

iNat33191677 Forest Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis)

Mathias D'haen 2019-09-16 iNaturalist listen › record

iNat33194391 Forest Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis)

Mathias D'haen 2019-09-16 iNaturalist listen › record

XC1059781 African Forest Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) - alarm call, defensive call

20 s

Antoine Ede 2025-05-10 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1059780 African Forest Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) - alarm call, defensive call

20 s

Antoine Ede 2025-05-10 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1059779 African Forest Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) - uncertain

5 s

Antoine Ede 2025-11-22 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1059778 African Forest Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) - uncertain

2 s

Antoine Ede 2025-11-22 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1059777 African Forest Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) - uncertain

5 s

Antoine Ede 2025-11-22 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1039996 African Forest Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis)

3 s

Antoine Ede 2025-09-15 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1039995 African Forest Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis)

8 s

Antoine Ede 2025-09-15 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1039994 African Forest Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis)

7 s

Antoine Ede 2025-09-15 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1039993 African Forest Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis)

2 s

Antoine Ede 2025-09-15 xeno-canto listen › record

XC1039992 African Forest Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis)

6 s

Antoine Ede 2025-09-15 xeno-canto listen › record

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References

Publications audioBlast links to this taxon.

• Garstang, Michael (2004) Long-distance, low-frequency elephant communication
  Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 190, 791 - 805
  doi:10.1007/s00359-004-0553-0

Sources

The rows audioBlast holds for this taxon, each matched to the same Catalogue of Life node. Where a source classifies it differently, its own classification is kept.

Source	Its name	Its rank	Its family	Record
iNaturalist	Elephantidae	Family	Elephantidae	iNaturalist/43692
BAbio.acousti.ca	Elephantidae	Family	Elephantidae	bio.acousti.ca/1693

Machine-readable

Bioschemas is in the head of this page. The Darwin Core RDF lives at the API address below, which negotiates JSON-LD and Turtle.

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  "sameAs": "https://api.audioblast.org/taxon/CoL/9M4",
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  }
}