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.

And although ethograms of varying thoroughness have been compiled for other species, what makes the new Elephant Ethogram exceptional — and addictive, even for the nonexpert — is its inclusion ...

The Elephant Ethogram is a kind of like a foreign-language dictionary for elephants, which is based on decades of research studies, photographs, and audio and video recordings.

The Elephant Ethogram is less flashy, but far more impressive. Andrew Whiten, who studies animal behaviour at the University of St Andrews, UK, calls it a “staggering achievement”.

New research confirms that elephant trunks don’t just blow—they can also suck.