Elephants are more like humans than we realized
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Wild African elephants call each other by their names, according to a study published today in Nature Ecology & Evolution — making them the only nonhuman animals known to use language like this. From infancy onward, we learn sounds that represent people, objects, feelings, and concepts. But if you …