wild African elephants address one another with individually specific name-like calls

This week's paper presents evidence that wild African elephants address one another with individually specific name-like calls.

Using machine learning, the researchers showed that the receiver of a call could be predicted from the call's acoustic structure, regardless of the similarity between the call and the receiver's own vocalizations. Additionally, elephants responded differently to playbacks of calls originally addressed to them compared to calls addressed to other individuals.

They also suggest that, unlike other non-human animals, elephants seem to not rely on imitation of the receiver’s calls to address one another.

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