A recent study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution has uncovered that wild African elephants communicate with individually specific calls, akin to human names. This groundbreaking discovery suggests that elephants use unique sound patterns to refer to each other, without imitating the vocalizations of the addressed individual. Researchers developed a statistical model that could identify the intended recipient of an elephant’s call with 20% accuracy, significantly better than random chance. One of the hallmarks of human language is the use of names. Humans use specific sets of sounds to re…