what do you call the sound that the elephants makes?

An Elephant "Trumpets"

The most usual sound is the trumpeting. They do

make other sounds, as other people have said in

their answers. They also produce sounds that

are subsonic (for humans, below their hearing

range) that carry long distances, used for

communication with other elephants. Whether

this is a part of the same sound that has been

described as belly rumblings I don't know.

Trumpet

Elephants TRUMPET, LOW, GRUNT and BELLOW. The one you're looking for is probably TRUMPET.

They can also cry, but that doesn't have a sound (If you get REALLY, REALLY close you might hear something like tears forming...).

Its a Trumpet, they also make a low frequency Bellow

They make a lot of different sounds . . . but I believe what you are probably referring to is called "trumpeting."

I always thought it was called trumpeting.

Besides all of these suggestions, they also Flatulate (pass gas) big time! I rode one in Africa and man did he have loud ones! ;)

trumpeting

is it a trumpet blast?