African elephants call each other and respond to individual names — something that few wild animals do, according to new research published Monday.
  • @plantteacher@mander.xyzOP
    1•8 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.

    • @plantteacher@mander.xyzOP
      1•6 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.