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African elephants call each other by unique names, new study shows (www.ctvnews.ca)

submitted 5 months ago by plantteacher@mander.xyz to c/ethology@mander.xyz

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[–] OwlPaste@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] plantteacher@mander.xyz 1 points 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.

[–] plantteacher@mander.xyz 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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.