What’s in a name? People use unique names to address each other, but we’re one of only a handful of animal species known to do that, including bottlenose dolphins. Finding more animals with names and ...

If you thought laughter was just a human trait, you couldn’t be more wrong. Many animals have their own unique ways of expressing joy.

From parrots to dolphins, several animals can astonishingly copy human voices and sounds. Scientists say these mimics reveal ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

Wild elephants seem to address each other using distinctive, rumbling sounds that could be akin to individual names. That's according to a provocative new study in the journal Nature Ecology & ...

Attention animal lovers, don’t forget there’s a whole world filled with wildlife that start with the letter “N.” If you had to name a few cute creatures that fit into that category, how many could you ...

You can add marmoset monkeys to the list of species that use “names.” But whether animals have anything more to say remains unknown. Do animals have names? According to the poet T.S. Eliot, cats have ...

Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Did you know that animal sounds can be crucial to ...