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Two juvenile African elephants greet each other
Two juvenile elephants greet each other in Samburu National Reserve in Kenya. Researchers found that wild African elephants have arbitrary vocal labels for each other, similar to human names.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant DBI 1907122.]
Learn more in the Colorado State University news story Elephants have names for each other like people do, new study shows. (Date of image: January 2024; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Sept. 13, 2024)
Credit: George Wittemyer
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