Videos show how African elephants may be the first nonhuman species to use vocal name-like identifiers for each other, suggesting "the capacity for some degree of symbolic thought," researchers said.
Videos shared by researchers show how the elephants respond to call recordings addressed to them. In one, an elephant named Margaret appears to almost immediately perk up to a rumble recording addressed to her.
It’s amazing to me that elephants use, among I would assume others, the name Margaret.
It’s amazing to me that elephants use, among I would assume others, the name Margaret.