Four Animals That Give Each Other Names

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Humans aren't the only ones who refer to each other by name. Several species in the animal kingdom refuse to live in anonymity.
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[@JosephHeiskell]

Of course dolphins can give each other names. They left a message thanking us for the fish

[@All_Loves_Lost]

😂😂

[@ryanc473]

Not just a message, an entire musical number at that! And we think we're the smart ones lol

[@MJWPub]

Yeah, but my name isn't So-Long?

[@PappaWinks]

42!

[@JeffryBozes]

Bravissimo, hiphip horray

[@eristic7501]

My hope is that within my lifetime they will make a Flipper remake with accurate subtitles for the dolphins

[@MusicalSeizureGuy]

They could even make it a drama about how he has to deal with the language issues between him and humans 😂

[@MichaelWinter-ss6lx]

Much easier if get some _babbel-fish_ and go with your own interactions, so no more dolphin is forced and tortured again.

[@drfill9210]

Sulfar created cockatoos. I have 2. They will give a call specific to whoever is in the room. They name us by imitating the first thing they hear from us when we enter the room. I have a gf and 2 daughters, and we all know who the parrot is addressing.

[@sebpilon2895]

Would love to see the extent of human influence on pet language/socialization! Thanks for your work and passion!

[@MichaelWinter-ss6lx]

Elephants also have a much wider communication range, than what we previously expected. They speak and hear far into infra-sonic tones, much lower than we can hear. These ultra deep tones also get carried very far, over several miles under right circumstances. What I find compelling, is elephants morbid fascination for their dead. They have their own graveyards! When ever they get there, they smell all over the place. Same when a dead elephant is found somewhere in the open. They smell all over the dead one, even a total skelleton. And they really take their time for this, as if they want to know who died. Did I know this one? Who was it? Or which family line, which ancestral line have we here? Their memory is known to be legendary.

[@mortiphago]

Your favorite animal isn't a shark?!?!

[@thatguywiththestache]

I love this channel and I love your presentation style!

[@GSBarlev]

I've seen research from (AFAICT) two different research groups studying sperm whale language, both with recent papers out around individual names. One of the groups, BTW, is literally called *Project CETI,* which just tickles _all_ my nerd nerve endings.

[@cosmoplakat9549]

Elephants can also learn the names of individual human caretakers and the human names given to all herd members! (See Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya and HERD Elephant Orphanage in South Africa). The Sheldrick success with reintroduction back to the wild is phenomenal, and even years after living wild, many return to say hello, even bringing their own wild-born babies to meet them! ❤❤❤❤❤

[@geekogen]

Jaida is a fantastic, fun, and funny host! I have an auditory processing disorder, so her speed in talking could be a little slower for my liking, but she's understandably excited about the subjects! And even I get to talking fast sometimes lol. Not a criticism at all! Just my brain fail lol.

[@MusicalSeizureGuy]

I wonder is any other primates do this! I think our closest relatives are chimpanzees, so do they chat? Apes, gorillas and plain old monkeys, do any of them chat? Great channel, keep rocking the science 😂

[@pikmin4743]

your shirt is dope!

[@jamieyoung3770]

I'll bet when scientists first figured this out, it was exactly like Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game.

[@Shatterverse]

My former psychiatrist had a parrot in the office. They also had a fax machine in the office. Guess what the parrot imitated 99% of the time. Go ahead. _Guess._

[@ryanc473]

Wait, so...do humans sound to dolphins like dolphins do to humans?

[@borttorbbq2556]

If by that you mean a hard to tell the difference between the sounds that we make it's possible. If I remember dolphins can hear in the air but they're hearing is not very good in air so they can probably hear us just we probably sound muffled they have a special ear structure of that is designed for hearing in the water

[@melvinshine9841]

That experiment with the speakers must've gotten annoying for the dolphins. Dolphin language speaker: "Clarence." Dolphin: "Someone call me?" Dolphin language speaker: "Clarence." Dolphin: "Yeah, what?" Dolphin language speaker: "Clarence." Dolphin: "Yeah. What?" Dolphin language speaker: "Clarence." Dolphin: "WHAT?!"

[@Conservative4]

Artificial intelligence and language is finally breaking through incredible barriers. Translation tech may eventually be able to cross species one day. Imagine being able to truly speak to another creature on their terms. Too bad I already know what my dog is saying. “TREAT!?”

[@MichaelWinter-ss6lx]

It will take much more time and effort, before we come up with something which deserves to be called AI. More so, as we want to fool ourselves with half done Virtual Intelligence.

[@randomcharacter6501]

The same people who scoff at the idea of speaking to animals who are clearly capable of it, think aliens who figured out interstellar travel would want to talk to us lol.

[@ChimeraZone]

The individual is my favorite emergent property of the universe.

[@AaronGeo]

TitularDolphin834

[@zivzulander]

I want to be friends with dolphin Steve 😁 Artificial intelligence/machine learning tools do seem to be getting us closer to understanding and speaking animal languages, many of which have frequencies outside of human vocal range and/or have non-verbal components. Computers are better at putting those things together in ways that we can't.

[@rmsgrey]

While modern day human names are often just picked from a list of words that are commonly used as names, that doesn't mean that they're arbitrary sound combinations which never had meaning. Generally, a name originally had a meaning, or is a variant of a name that had meaning. Taking Jaida as an example, while there's disagreement about precisely what it meant originally, common theories are that it's a variant of Jade, itself derived from the green precious stone, or that it's from one of several Hebrew words, including one meaning "wise".

[@red_dragon_8752]

I AM ... STEVE

[@ckq]

Oh I was thinking the animal has a name for another species

[@sweethoney9292]

Sound production needs a better EQ on the sound, no hate but you guys just blew my ears out 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️ 1:29

[@little_forest]

Hello Woohoo! ;)

[@karamsingh1236]

It´s Dave Dave´s not here.

[@SoumyaGuharoy-m9r]

2nd to comment.

[@AlinNastasa-w5q]

first :D