The Jouberts were adamant about not faking anything the elephants did. What we show of how the elephants act, how they show their feelings, the way they respond to each other, all happens to elephants naturally. We ve seen it. What we did was to interpret their talk and put it into the English language. What humans can hear a squeal or a trumpet, for instance is a sonic sound.
Elephants are able to communicate over miles and miles of territory infrasonically.
It s because the lower the frequency, the farther a sound can travel. Even separated by vast distances, they can hear each other. It is a language, too, because they can modulate the sounds to mean different things. Above all, the Jouberts want to call attention to the plight of African elephants today. Yet it seems everywhere we look, we see antagonism.