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Wilshire@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

African elephants have individual name-like calls for each other, similar to human names, study finds

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African elephants have individual name-like calls for each other, similar to human names, study finds

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Wilshire@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 11 months ago
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Videos show how African elephants may be the first nonhuman species to use vocal name-like identifiers for each other, suggesting "the capacity for some degree of symbolic thought," researchers said.
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    To be fair, it’s entirely possible elephants have created a deity of sorts. We’d have zero way of knowing.

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