African savanna elephants communicate more like humans than previously thought, new research shows—opening up new possibilities for elephant cognition. African savanna elephants walk roam the ...

Elephants appear to know their own names, according to a new study. Not the nicknames we humans sometimes give them, but their own, unique elephant names, which they use to call to each other.

The elephants vocalized and approached the source of the sound more readily when the call was one originally addressed to them. On average, they approached the speaker 128 seconds sooner ...

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Lots of animals communicate with each other, from tiny mice to enormous whales. But none of those forms of communication share all but a small fraction of the richness of human language.

What’s in a name? People use unique names to address each other, but we’re one of only a handful of animal species known to do that, including bottlenose dolphins. Finding more animals with ...

Scientists used AI to find elephants likely have unique names for each other. Machine learning analyzed hundreds of elephant calls recorded in Kenya between 1986 and 2022. Elephants' ability to ...

Elephants seem to use personalized calls to address members of their group, providing a rare example of naming in animals other than humans. “There’s a lot more sophistication in animal lives ...

A recently published study claims that the sounds of African elephants may have a lot more significance than humans think. The research, which was published in a journal called Nature Ecology and ...

At dinner recently, a friend asked me a puzzler: what’s the deal with the shirt. The shirt, as she described, is an open collar knit polo. Its prime distinguishing attribute is that it lacks ...

First, came the news that alligator penises are almost erect. Then, we found out just how silly crocs look when they’re floating. And now? Now, we learn about elephant nursing. In a recent ...