Forget names like 'Dumbo'—wild elephants appear to have their own unique names that other elephants use while talking to them in low rumbles.
Forget names like"Dumbo"—wild elephants appear to have their own unique names that other elephants use while talking to them in low rumbles.Wild elephants seem to address each other using distinctive, rumbling sounds that could be akin to individual names.
“The rumbles themselves are highly structurally variable,” says Pardo. “There's quite a lot of variation in their acoustic structure.” If elephants had names, not every call would be expected to contain one — just like people don’t use each other’s names every time they speak to each other. “We had to find a situation where a specific elephant was by herself, or at least not with the individual who made the recording,” he says, explaining that the team would then play the recording through a loudspeaker.They used different recordings on different days. Depending on the day, the elephant would either hear a recorded call that was originally addressed to her or hear a call made by the same elephant that was not intended for her.
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