A Study on the Risk Analysis of Tiger Cry that Makes Elephants Tremble

Abstract

Elephants are often injured or killed while running away after being chased by the cry of a tiger, which is becoming a hot topic. According to the previous experimental papers, it was found that accidents often occur where an elephant, who was not afraid of the cry of a leopard or a puma, hears the cry of a tiger and panics, then falls off a cliff or dies without getting out of the swamp.[1] Then, we investigated what kind of sound components are contained in the Tiger's cry, which frightens the elephants and makes them tremble in fear. We also investigated how different the Tiger's cry was from other feline predators. The experiment was conducted by comparing and analyzing the cries of leopards and pumas among various feline predators with those of tigers. As a result of the analysis, it was found that the low-frequency sound of the 50 Hz band and the intense ultra-low-frequency sound below the human audible band were widely and strongly generated in the cry of a tiger. Suppose the elephant habitat or zoo wants to prevent accidents or stress caused by hearing the tiger cry. In that case, installing a barrier or sound barrier around the elephant habitat is also possible to prevent the powerful low-frequency sound from the Tiger's cry from being transmitted directly. © 2022 Seventh Sense Research Group®