Wild African elephants may address each other using individualized calls that resemble the personal names used by humans, a new study suggests. While dolphins are known to call one another by ...

What’s in a name? People use unique names to address each other, but we’re one of only a handful of animal species known to do that, including bottlenose dolphins. Finding more animals with names and ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

WASHINGTON — African elephants call each other and respond to individual names — something that few wild animals do, according to new research published Monday. The names are one part of elephants' ...

Research on the rumbles of wild elephants suggest that these animals address each other with unique, name-like vocalizations. (Story aired on All Things Considered on June 10, 2024.) Some wild African ...

If you listen closely, you won’t hear names like Judy or Clyde, but elephants have developed a pattern of speech to communicate with each other. Somewhere in the low rumblings of an elephant are names ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elephants have close social bonds, which may have led to the evolution of name-like calls. Michael Pardo What’s in a name? People ...