Wild African elephants may address each other using individualized calls that resemble the personal names used by humans, a new study suggests. While dolphins are known to call one another by ...

What’s in a name? People use unique names to address each other, but we’re one of only a handful of animal species known to do that, including bottlenose dolphins. Finding more animals with names and ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Family of African Bush Elephants taking a mud bath in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya.© I, Mgiganteus, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia ...

WASHINGTON — African elephants call each other and respond to individual names — something that few wild animals do, according to new research published Monday. The names are one part of elephants' ...

Wild elephants seem to address each other using distinctive, rumbling sounds that could be akin to individual names. "Sometimes another bottlenose dolphin will imitate somebody else's signature ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elephants have close social bonds, which may have led to the evolution of name-like calls. Michael Pardo What’s in a name? People ...