Elephants don’t purr so much as sing when they unleash low-frequency rumblings at friends and foes kilometers away.
NOT PURRING African elephants (shown here in Amboseli National Park) can send long-distance, low-frequency messages that depend on vocal mechanisms that are more like people singing than like cats purring.
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