Raising the Alarm

It was then that, led by the matriarch, the herd began trumpeting en masse. That’s the sound we hear when an elephant blows through its trunk, and these towering mammals reportedly only do so when highly stimulated. Given the distressed calf’s prolonged stress and alarm, no wonder the entire herd began sending out a distress call.

What the herd hoped to achieve from this deafening cacophony seemed unclear. And though no help seemed to be on the way, the noise had another effect.