For all their popularity and towering size, there are still some little-known secrets to elephants.

Like how they can communicate with low-frequency vibrations in the ground, which they can pick up with their padded feet. Or that they didn’t descend directly from mammoths, but rather an animal that looks like “if a ferret was much rounder.”

Those pieces of elephant lore and more await in “The Secret World of Elephants,” a new exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

Originally curated by the American Museum of Natural History, the exhibit is now touring the country, with Denver as its first stop.

According to Holly Lutz, the associate curator of mammals at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, the Mile High City is a fitting beginning.

“One of the fossils that visitors w

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