Silent Thunder: In the Presence of Elephants
Katy Payne
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books (September 1, 1999)
ISBN: 0140285962
Overall Rating: 3 Stars 
Readability: 2 Stars
Content: 3 Stars
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Silent Thunderis at times a struggle to read. Katy Payne is an
elephant researcher, specializing in long distance subsonic elephant
communication. The book tends to be a bit erratic, jumping randomly
from Payne's childhood in Pennsylvania, to Namibia, Kenya, and
Zimbabwe. Silent Thunder becomes tedious when Payne explores her
roots in Pennsylvania, mostly because her anecdotes don't mesh
well with her descriptions of elephant research. However, her
theories on subsonic elephant communication are fascinating and
pull the reader through the dull sections of the book. This book
would greatly compliment a safari in Africa, enlightening the
reader on one of the least understood methods of elephant communication.
