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 names and ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

Wild elephants seem to address each other using distinctive, rumbling sounds that could be akin to individual names. That’s according to a provocative new study in the journal Nature Ecology & ...

In this undated photo, an African elephant matriarch leads her calf away from danger in northern Kenya. A new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution demonstrates that elephants respond to individual ...

If you want to hear elephants gossip about each other in Kenya, you can either travel south to the Amboseli National Park or explore the greater Samburu ecosystem in the north. In both areas, you will ...

Wild elephants seem to address each other using distinctive, rumbling sounds that could be akin to individual names. "Sometimes another bottlenose dolphin will imitate somebody else's signature ...

WASHINGTON — African elephants call each other and respond to individual names — something that few wild animals do, according to new research published Monday. The names are one part of elephants' ...