African elephants call each other and respond to individual names — something that few wild animals do, according to new research published Monday.
  • @OwlPasteEnglish
    1•4 months ago

    Wow thats cool, better than humans who reuse names… Just how many mikes do you know?

    • @[email protected]OP
      1•3 months ago

      I would assume the extent of the uniqueness is probably unknown at this point. The researchers probably meant uniqueness within a group. Though I suppose the population is small enough that the names could be unique globally.

  • @[email protected]OP
    0•4 months ago

    Also worth noting that AI was used by the researchers. It’s not mentioned in the article, but I guess AI helped sort out which sounds might be a name.