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UNDATED (WKRC) - A new study has found African elephants address each other with and respond to unique names, a very rare trait in wild animals. Names are a major aspect of human communication ...

Videos show how African elephants may be the first nonhuman species to use vocal name-like identifiers for each other, suggesting "the capacity for some degree of symbolic thought," researchers said.

Poole, a study co-author and National Geographic Explorer, made the Amboseli recordings. In all, the team analyzed data from 101 African savanna elephants making 469 separate calls to 117 recipients.