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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>With advanced technology and the help of AI, scientists are increasingly discovering proof that many animals are much smarter than previously thought.<\/b><\/p>\n

From self-medicating great apes to elephants that call one another by individual names, the wonderful world of nature was full of fascinating discoveries throughout 2024.<\/p>\n

In June, biologists from Colorado State University in the United States published a paper suggesting African elephants respond to individual names.<\/p>\n

These unique names are in the form of complex low rumbles that can be heard over long distances across the savannah.<\/p>\n

They used machine learning to detect the use of names in recordings made in Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve and Amboseli National Park.<\/p>\n

The biologists then tested their results by playing them back to individual elephants, who responded more energetically, flapping their ears and lifting their trunks, to those that contained their name.<\/p>\n

“Elephants do these really interesting behaviours where sometimes when they’re in a big group of females or a mate check of a group will give a call. The entire group will respond, they’ll group up around her or they’ll follow her,\u201d said co-author George Wittemyer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen at other times, she gives seemingly a very similar call and nobody will respond, nobody will react, except for a single elephant. So that indicates that they have a means by which to communicate to who they want to talk to.”<\/p>\n

But elephants are not the only ones.<\/p>\n

Scientists have long known that marine animals communicate underwater, including the songs sung by humpback whales and whistles used by dolphins.<\/p>\n

But this year, researchers studying sperm whales in the Caribbean said they believe their set of clicks could make up a sort of \u201cphonetic alphabet\u201d that they can use to build the rough equivalent of what people think of as words and phrases.<\/p>\n

In addition to communication using sound, researchers at Italy’s University of Pisa and University of Turin in a separate study discovered that bottlenose dolphins “smile” at one another to communicate during play.<\/p>\n

Everyone knows chimps are clever.<\/p>\n

But research from the University of Oxford released this year points to them having a sophisticated medicinal culture, seeking out plants with strong anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory effects.<\/p>\n

The study followed two chimp communities over several months, tracking sick animals and the plants they searched for.<\/p>\n

Out of the wild, many dog owners have the sense that their pets understand human language more than just simple commands.<\/p>\n

They do not only respond to verbal cues like \u201csit\u201d and \u201cstay,\u201d but also ones that refer to their favourite toys, the car, and even the bath.<\/p>\n

But science has had trouble determining whether dogs genuinely activate a mental image when they hear the name of an object, something that would suggest a deeper grasp of language similar to that possessed by humans.<\/p>\n

In March this year, a study in Hungary found that dogs can learn to associate words with specific objects – a relationship with language called referential understanding that had been unproven in dogs until now.<\/p>\n

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