Forget names like 'Dumbo'—wild elephants appear to have their own unique names that other elephants use while talking to them in low rumbles.
This adult elephant in Kenya was named"Desert Rose" by researchers, but does she have her own elephant name?
He means names that the animals call themselves — rather than names like Margaret and Marie that researchers working in nature preserves have given them. For every recorded call, the researchers knew the identity of the elephant making the rumble as well as, based on the context, the elephant that was being addressed.
This indicates, he says, that “there must be something in the calls that's allowing the model to figure out at least some of the time who that call was addressed to.” And, it turns out, the elephants generally seemed to know when a rumbling message was actually meant for them, suggesting that it contained something like a name. When they heard those calls, they approached the loudspeaker more quickly. They also vocalized a reply more swiftly, and made more response calls.
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