Re: Morgan Tears 3.

Alex Duncan (aduncan@mail.utexas.edu)
1 Nov 1995 15:53:21 GMT

In article <475278$c6@scotsman.ed.ac.uk> , jamesb@hgu.mrc.ac.uk writes:

>I have also heard it claimed that elephants have the
>vestiges of a long-range sonar system in their heads, but I don't have a
>reference.

Elephants have a functional mechanism for the transmission of low
frequency sound. It is not sonar.

Alex Duncan
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1086
512-471-4206
aduncan@mail.utexas.edu