New study finds African elephants call each other by unique names

African elephants respond to individual names, one of the few wild animal species known to do so, according to new research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution on Monday.

These unique names are in the form of complex low rumbles that can be heard over long distances across the savannah.

Biologists from Colorado State University’s Warner College of Natural Resources used machine learning to detect them in recordings made in Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve and Amboseli National Park.

They then tested their results by playing the sounds back to individual…