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Elephants give each other names – first non-human animals to do so, study claims
- impendingchange 3y agoAnyone know what the first human animals to give each other names? Just asking.
- 4death4 3y agoRemove non-humans. “First animals to do so.” Wait… that’s not correct, because humans are animals and they name each other. You’ve created a false dichotomy.
- anakaine 3y agoHumans are animals. There are no humans that are not animals. Non-human animals are animals which are not humans, and thus the headline is gramatically and scientifically correct. It is unclear what you are trying to achieve by this comment.
- Scaevolus 3y agoIt happened in prehistory along with the first language developments, but archeologists are keeping track of the oldest known name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushim_(Uruk_period) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushim_(Uruk_period)
- DoreenMichele 3y agoPretty sure we've been saying for years that dolphins name each other. First link I came up with on a really quick search, dated 2013: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dolphins-may-have-names-for-one-another-25697836/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dolphins-may-have-...
- morteify 3y agoThere is a mention of dolphins in the article: "This makes them [elephants] the first non-human animals to address each other in a manner that does not imitate the receiver's own call, as dolphins and parrots do."