Elephants have names for each other like people do

Two juvenile elephants greet each other in Samburu National Reserve in Kenya. Credit: George Wittemyer. Article: Elephants have names for each other like people do.

Researchers from Colorado State University in the USA discovered that wild African elephants use name-like calls to communicate with each other, demonstrating a rare and complex form of animal communication.

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