For years it’s been thought that horses who swish their tail, put their ears back and open their mouth when being ridden are behaving negatively. However, recent research by vet Sue Dyson, a ...

Here are some African elephants having a good time. (SOUNDBITE OF ELEPHANTS TRUMPETING) GARCIA-NAVARRO: For almost half a century, Joyce Poole has been listening to what elephants have to say and ...

Even without training, it is possible for onlookers to assess pain and lameness in ridden horses using an ethogram, research has shown. Dr Sue Dyson, head of clinical orthopaedics at the Centre for ...

National Geographic Explorer Joyce Poole reflects on her life’s achievement: an ethogram cataloguing nearly 50 years of data on African elephant behavior. Joyce Poole records elephant vocalizations in ...

When a male African savanna elephant folds his ears while simultaneously waving them, he’s ready for a fight. When a female folds her ears and accompanies the action with an ear flap, that means she’s ...

Joyce Poole was 6 years old and living in Malawi when her family drove north to see the wild African elephants of what is now Kenya’s Amboseli National Park. On spotting a majestic male elephant, ...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with researcher Joyce Poole about the release of her African Elephant Ethogram —the most comprehensive audiovisual library ever made of African elephant behavior. Here ...