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African elephants address one another with name-like calls − similar to humans

  • Written by Mickey Pardo, Postdoctoral Fellow in Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University
imageElephants have close social bonds, which may have led to the evolution of name-like calls. Michael Pardo

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 investigating how they use them...

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