HOW d’you digeriDOO?
A British player of the digeridoo (AKA: “the didge,” the didjeridu, and a million other spellings) who is also a researcher at Leeds University, has used the ancient Australian Aboriginal instrument as a means of communicating with Elephants at frequencies below that of human hearing.
He has tested the idea at British zoos, using a specially built sub-sonic version of the didgeridoo. The goal is to eventually use the instrument to warn Elephants away from crops and areas inhabited by humans, in parts of the world where the meeting of human and elephant traditionally leads to one or the other getting hurt.
The rough sketch for this illustration was posted here almost a year ago.
