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, ...

Forget names like "Dumbo"—wild elephants appear to have their own unique names that other elephants use while talking to them in low rumbles. Search Query Show Search. News. IPR News; ...

"And names are significant; they help define what we think about these animals, and they follow them through their entire lives. Advertisement More than 2,000 animals live at the Milwaukee County Zoo.

JJ Jones and Crystal Muguin of Zoo Knoxville stop by 6 News to share more about a new program aimed at spreading awareness of wild chimpanzees, and talk about the new names for the red fox kits and ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Louisville Zoo's first Sumatran tiger cub in over two decades finally has a name. Zookeepers at the Islands selected three potential names reflecting the cub's importance ...

Trish Khan, the Milwaukee County Zoo's curator of primates and small mammals, has worked at the zoo for more than 30 years, and in that time, methods for naming animals have changed. "It used to ...

Research on the rumbles of wild elephants suggest that these animals address each other with unique, name-like vocalizations. (Story aired on All Things Considered on June 10, 2024.) ...

Trish Khan, the Milwaukee County Zoo's curator of primates and small mammals, has worked at the zoo for more than 30 years, and in that time, methods for naming animals have changed. "It used to ...