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For humans, naming animals comes almost naturally.
According toresearchers, African savannah elephants have names for each other in the form of low, rumbling sounds.
But the indication of them being a name came from recipients responding accordingly to the call.
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In the end, the scientists identified rumbles specific to 119 individuals.
So far, they’ve correctly identified the receivers of 20.3% of the 625 recorded calls.
These trailblazing findings make elephants the first non-human animals to give each other names.
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This makes them the first non-human animals to give each other names.
