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Africa: African Elephants Address One Another With Name-Like Calls - Similar to Humans
The Conversation Africa, 11 June 2024
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… Read more »
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Africa: African Elephants Call Each Other Unique Names, New Study Shows
VOA, 10 June 2024
African elephants call each other and respond to unique names, a phenomenon that is rare among wild animals, new research shows. Read more »
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Botswana: Masisi's Threat to Send 30,000 Elephants At Odds With Trophy Hunting Threat to Elephants, and People
allAfrica, 12 June 2024
Botswana has threatened to send 10,000 elephants to the UK and another 20,000 to Germany as UK and European countries move toward banning the import of hunting trophies. According… Read more »
African Elephants Call Each Other by Name - Study
Elephant researchers have found evidence that elephants use unique rumbling calls to address specific individuals, similar to human names, writes Mickey Pardo for The Conversation Africa.
Biologists in the study, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, used machine learning to detect naming in a sound library from Kenya's Samburu National Reserve and Amboseli National Park. The researchers also followed elephants in jeeps to look for calls and responses. The elephants vocalized and approached the source of the sound more readily when the call was originally addressed to them.
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