A groundbreaking study has discovered that elephants communicate using unique vocalisations akin to individual names, a behavior previously unseen in non-human animals without mimicry. Researchers analyzed over 469 calls from wild African savannah elephants in Kenya, revealing that these specific sounds enable elephants to identify, recognize, and respond to each other across distances.
Washington: A hefty set of tusks is usually an advantage for elephants, allowing them to dig for water, strip bark for food and joust with other elephants. But during episodes of intense ivory poaching, those big incisors become a liability. Now researchers have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led […]
