Study: African Elephants Address Each Other With Name-Like Calls

Study: African Elephants Address Each Other With Name-Like Calls

A team of scientists from Colorado State University, Save the Elephants and ElephantVoices used machine learning to confirm that calls of African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) contained a name-like component identifying the intended recipient. When the authors played back recorded calls, the elephants responded affirmatively to calls that were addressed to them by calling back […]

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Elephants Are the First Non-Human Animals Now Known to Use Names, AI Research Shows

Elephants Are the First Non-Human Animals Now Known to Use Names, AI Research Shows

In a study as amazing as it is probably unsurprising, a team of biologists and researchers using machine learning tools discovered that elephants call each other by names. For an animal that is known to perform deeply social acts like grieving, raising children collectively, and communicating across miles of countryside using complex low-frequency vocalizations, the […]

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For the First Time in Decades, Rare Birds Nest on Restored Chilean Island

For the First Time in Decades, Rare Birds Nest on Restored Chilean Island

In Pajaros Uno Island, La Higuera, Chile the Island Conservation is celebrating a groundbreaking milestone. For the first time in decades, the rare Peruvian Diving-Petrels, locally known as “yuncos,” have returned to nest on the island. These seabirds, crucial to the ecosystem’s health, have made their comeback less than a year after social attraction efforts […]

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