Sentences with phrase «elephant larynx»
The sound made by an elephant larynx on a tube is difficult to describe.
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A team led by voice scientist Christian Herbst, now of the University of Olomouc in the Czech Republic, used the donated larynx of a dead elephant to study the process of vocalization, which he says opens new possibilities for researching oice projection problems in people.
«I looked at archived larynxes of the mammoth's descendant, the Asian elephant,» Humeau says, «along with photographs and scans of woolly mammoths preserved in ice in Siberia.
Titze and his colleagues, Tobias Riede of Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona and Ted Mau of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, compiled measurements of larynx characteristics for 16 species, including humans and animals ranging from mice to elephants.
One theory holds that the rumbles are made only by the elephants» vocal cords, which, like ours, consist of two flaps of flesh in the larynx — though an elephant's larynx is eight times larger than ours.
The best way to answer the question of elephant - talk would be to examine the animal's larynx.