Trumpet

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Elephants trumpet and make trumpeting sounds when they are excited, fearful, or happy, often followed by a roar, or Infrasound when they communicate on distance'>Rumbling.

The sound is produced by a forceful expulsion of air through the Trunk, much similair to a trumpeter who play atrumpet or a trombone sound especially when playing “brassy”.

Mostly the trumpeting sound is made with the Trunk only,” among the African forest elephants studied at Cornell University’s Elephant Listening Project says project director Peter Wrege via email. National Geographic

Trumpet is mentioned on 2 other pagesTrumpet, Indigestion,

Trumpet is mentioned on 11 person pagesAlbert Hay, Benjamin Wallace, Bernard Shea, Charly Frank, Dorothy Ashton, Eileen Wirth, Hans Rietmann, Matthew Scott, Matthias Walter, Robert White, Zebedee Macomber,

Trumpet is mentioned on 8 location pagesCarl Hagenbecks Wild Animal Circus, Gangala-na-Bodio Elephant Domestication Center, George B. Chapman, Russian State Darwin Museum, Sonepur Fair, Stockholms Tivoli, The Nubian Caravan, Wallace and Co Circus,

Trumpet is mentioned on 20 elephant record pagesBaba, Bosco, Bua Khao, Chang II, Frankie, Geetha, Jenny, Jumbo, Kaylee, Lizzie, Major, Marula, Meena, Mills B, Miss India, Nancy, Phoebe, Pilate (Pilot), Rajah, Sheriff,

Reference list Koehl, Dan, (2025). Trumpet. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 20 September 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/index.php?id=23. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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