Elefarts: Splashing sound?

• by Snorticus

  #Orohena asks an interesting question: #elephant what is this noise? It seems like awfully quick splashing to be made by the elephant's movements. Any ideas?

  Posted July 24, 2017 7:36 PM

• by NuriaM scientist, moderator in response to Snorticus's comment.

  Hi @Snorticus and @Orohena. This is very interesting...I think you are going to like the answer, but I´m still not 100% sure. Let me just ask some more ele. freaks (like me 😃 ), and I will come back to you guys very soon...

  Posted July 25, 2017 8:47 AM

• by Orohena

  Wow @NuriaM ! That's a teaser ! Can't wait 😃

  Posted July 25, 2017 9:12 AM

• by NuriaM scientist, moderator

  here I am...so, my suspicion is right 😃

  we have our first ELEPHANT FART!! isn´t it great???

  Right before the splashing sound you can hear like two "hits": these are feces falling on the ground. Then we hear the fart (sorry, I don´t know if there is any more polite word in English...wind?). At first I wasn´t sure because usually the ele. fart sound is not so "liquid" (sorry!), and the reason why it sounds this way in this video is because it is accompanied by poo 😄

  Have I already said that I love these animals, in all their situations???

  😃

  Posted July 25, 2017 11:27 AM

• by Orohena

  WOW ! I definitly didn't expected that ! Amazing ! (no idea if there was better word to choose in English to make it more "polite" but at least I understood it 😃 )
  Thank you @NuriaM !

  I still love it too. I mean, it's just nature... And this elephant probably didn't knew that there was a camera recording it ! Haha

  Posted July 25, 2017 11:35 AM

• by MimiA scientist, moderator

  i love this so much!

  Posted July 25, 2017 1:31 PM

• by Snorticus in response to NuriaM's comment.

  I love this discovery! It now goes in my 'toots' collection of animal farts 😉

  Posted July 25, 2017 4:59 PM

• by MimiA scientist, moderator

  OMG you have that collection! Please share 😃 should we make a #toots tag? 3:) it would just be for fun but that's 1/2 of chimpandsee right?

  Posted July 25, 2017 6:00 PM

• by Boleyn moderator

  LOL ladies, you're cracking me up 😄

  Posted July 25, 2017 8:17 PM

• by Snorticus

  It is a small collection so far: https://talk.chimpandsee.org/#/collections/CCPS000239 Headphones may be needed to properly hear all the toots and definitely we should make a #toots tag, Mimi.

  Also, reviewing I find we have run across another elephant toot: ACP000bn0r

  Let your inner kid out and enjoy 😉

  Posted July 25, 2017 9:20 PM

• by Snorticus in response to NuriaM's comment.

  Need a sound consult on another possible elephant toot, @NuriaM

  ACP000dy67

  Posted July 25, 2017 10:45 PM

• by NuriaM scientist, moderator

  Hey guys, I knew you were going to love this 😄

  Thanks so much #Orohena for your great find!!

  @Snorticus:

  Here ACP000bn0r we have a really beautiful elephant fart: . He (I guess you all have been guessing it´s a he 😉 ) is checking the camera with his hind right leg and then he dedicates a lovely fart to all of us.

  In this one ACP000dy67 I´m not that sure. It goes indeed in the fart direction, but I find the sound too low if you compare it with the sound the ele. makes when walking. I have been thinking of a small animal a bit separated from the ele (maybe a frog? not sure at all!!) .

  I love your #toots collection!!! 😄

  Posted July 26, 2017 6:31 AM

• by Boleyn moderator in response to NuriaM's comment.

  ROFLMAO - that's too much: ...he dedicates a lovely fart to all of us ...

  tooot - tooooot = my inner and my outer kid in harmony! 😛

  Posted July 26, 2017 1:02 PM

• by MimiA scientist, moderator in response to Snorticus's comment.

  I tagged the first one - you tag the rest @Snorticus 😃

  Posted July 26, 2017 1:57 PM

• by yshish moderator

  LOL!!! That is sooo amazing, guys! I just love this project 😃

  Posted July 26, 2017 10:21 PM

• by Snorticus in response to MimiA's comment.

  K - all tagged in the service of science!

  Posted July 27, 2017 2:16 AM

• by PauDG scientist, moderator

  LOL!!!

  Posted July 27, 2017 1:30 PM

• by MimiA scientist, moderator in response to Snorticus's comment.

  Thanks!!!

  Posted July 29, 2017 9:45 PM

• by AnLand moderator

  Hey @Snorticus, some more from the Red Water review: ACP0002wbi, ACP0002wb8 (a bit), ACP0002wbq and ACP0002wbs

  On twitter, it was a while ago mentioned that during the habituation process in order to find the chimps farts are one of the sounds indicating presence of chimps. It's a sound that nobody can hide.

  Posted September 30, 2017 6:48 PM

• by AnLand moderator

  And for everyone who thinks this is an interesting topic: there is an upcoming book Does it fart? by Dani Rabaiotti about all you need to know on animal flatulence. Dani's "other" research is about African wild dogs and climate change. You can follow her on twitter.

  Posted September 30, 2017 7:08 PM

• by Snorticus in response to AnLand's comment.

  Oh those were quite good additions for my 'toots' collection, @AnLand I follow Dani Rabaiotti but somehow missed her book. Thanks for the heads up, that one is a must have!

  Posted September 30, 2017 9:40 PM

• by Snorticus

  ACP000ctqo Hey @NuriaM - can you confirm this should go in my #toots collection? 😉

  Posted October 4, 2017 9:37 PM

• by NuriaM scientist, moderator in response to Snorticus's comment.

  LOL! yep, but I think she´s having stomach issues 😦

  Posted October 5, 2017 8:39 AM

• by Snorticus in response to NuriaM's comment.

  Hopefully her issues are only temporary, poor ele.

  Posted October 7, 2017 4:55 PM

• by ksigler moderator

  Of all the conversations on this project, this one makes me the most uncomfortable so far. I feel embarrassed for the animals! :-\ lol But, I guess that's silly, since they don't seem to have the farting hang-up like humans do.

  In case you wanted to juvenile this up a little more, here's the best emoticon I could come up with:

  (_ Y _) 📣

  or, occasionally (_ Y _) 📣 💩

  (smh)

  Posted October 8, 2017 11:31 PM

• by NuriaM scientist, moderator in response to ksigler's comment.

  LOL!!!!! Thanks Kris, I love it! 😄

  Posted October 9, 2017 5:58 AM

• by Snorticus in response to NuriaM's comment.

  Hi @NuriaM I just classified this elephant & think I hear some plopping & toots. Or 😄 as @ksigler says (_ Y _)  

  Could you give it a listen? Thanks!

  ACP000dlg9 continued in ACP000dlgc

  Posted November 29, 2017 1:53 AM

• by NuriaM scientist, moderator in response to Snorticus's comment.

  lovely! a beautiful elefart for the camera 😄

  (how could I change my cell phone ringtone to an elephant fart?? 😕 )

  Posted November 29, 2017 9:24 AM

• by Snorticus in response to NuriaM's comment.

  Lol, Nuria!

  Posted November 30, 2017 12:45 AM