Wild Things: Life as We Know It
Dinosaur gangs, psychedelic fish and long-distance elephant calls
![African elephant](https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/egckwiENb5uCkdviITFbjbj23GE=/1000x750/filters:no_upscale()/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/elephant-long-distance-631.jpg)
How Elephants Call Long-Distance
![Some elephant calls are so deep in pitch they shake the ground](https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/VnvbAWsk-tFY0BxfFg37lNFLQQQ=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/elephant-long-distance-520.jpg)
Young Dinosaurs Joined Gangs
![More than 20 young dinosaurs died together 92 million years ago](https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/OfvmMm0rL20S6D_9Bj5MFWSqnSs=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/dinosaur-bones-520.jpg)
Psychedelic Fish On Groovy Trip
![hopping fish](https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/Jaz3pjIyamy8ld7ZAj2IxnUWy1E=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/groovy-fish-520.jpg)
Where The Camels Roamed
![North American camel on stone tools](https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/7C0ALo63ck_dq_MX4GMIMmctT6w=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/camel-roam-520.jpg)
Observed
![The Peruvian warbling antbird](https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/y-kgkCC92WpcenbarUVhLH7R50I=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/warbling-antbird-520.jpg)
Two's Company: Antbirds live in pairs. They defend their territories from other antbirds by singing complex duets to signal their combined strength.
Three's Trouble: But when an unattached female enters a pair's territory, you can forget about such harmony, a study from the University of Oxford says. Once the male starts warbling, his partner launches into a song that interferes with his—a clear attempt, the researchers say, to ruin any overture to the unattached female.