Study Finds Wild Elephants Call One Another By Name

According to a study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution that used machine learning of audio data to predict the intention of African elephant calls, elephants address one another by and respond to individual names, using unique rumbling sounds to call out across distances. What do you think?

“Still, as an outsider, it’s more polite for you to refer to them as sir or madam.”

Giselle Gilmore, Chess Referee

“I could never be an elephant, I’m terrible with names.”

Stephen Connolly, Pool Shark

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“Can’t elephants just let us have one thing?”

Jared Burns, Systems Analyst