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Animal Intelligence Research

Communication, learning and social cognition across species, without translating suggestive behavior into human language or motives too quickly.

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Communication experiments
Playback and field studies
Learning and navigation
Comparative cognition

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Was behavior tested experimentally?
Could simpler cues explain the response?
Is a human analogy being mistaken for equivalence?

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Elephants appear to use individual-specific, name-like calls

Machine learning and playback experiments found evidence that calls can identify a receiver. “Name-like” is a careful analogy—not evidence of human-style language.

June 10, 2024Field recordings, machine learning, and playback experimentsNature Ecology & Evolution

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Elephants appear to use individual-specific, name-like calls

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