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African elephants call each other by unique names, new study shows (www.ctvnews.ca)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Wow thats cool, better than humans who reuse names... Just how many mikes do you know?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 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.