What's your name? It's one of those sounds that gets people's attention, sells our society-wide affinity for human language, and sets us apart from our contemporaries. Alas, a scientific researcher, with the help of artificial intelligence, has found evidence that elephants know their names, too.
“The individual abilities of animals that are part of a family,” explains Mickey Pardo, an acoustic biologist at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and co-author of a paper published monthly in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.
While elephant trumpets may produce the most audible sounds, Pardo says, “it's essentially an emotional response.” The deepest level of return is what matters most, as it's what gives the elephants their vocalizations and allows them to use them in a variety of social situations. “There was a lot of interesting stuff on the flip side,” he asserts.
Pardo and George Wittemyer, a professor of conservation biology at Colorado State University and chairman of the scientific council for the wildlife conservation organization Salva a los Elefantes, analyzed 469 recordings from adult elephant family groups and calves in Kenya's Amboseli National Park and Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Parks.
Elephant brains can be hard to distinguish from human brains, so researchers are essentially using artificial intelligence to tell the difference between elephant brains.
The elephants responded decisively to the other elephants, asking the researchers about the introduction of artificial intelligence: “The llamas have almost forgotten their names, and thanks to the acoustic structure of the llamas, it's possible that someone is a hardliner,” Pardo explains.
Now, scientists don't know exactly if some of the vocalizations will be the elephant's “name.” But they have discovered that your artificial intelligence has the ability to identify your return destination and gradually reveal what your azar means.
This analysis is a supplemental resource for camp activities conducted by Pardo and David Lolchuragi, a research collaborator and research assistant at Save the Elephants. Researchers videotaped respondents' responses and extracted them from the elephants' spines. They discovered that the elephants responded to them with stronger “names” than the others, and were surprised by what they heard and responded in their own words.
“I was very moved,” Pardo said, “because when I realized the results of the reenactment, I felt very strongly that this was the most telling evidence that an elephant could be identified, and not just a llama, and that the llama responded more strongly than the elephant in nature.”
Other animals, for example, pay attention to the classification and classification of animals and name other animals that scientists call by “names”. However, this is an imitation of sounds that are frequently made by other individuals. It is not the same as humans or names being creamy. For example, if your name is John, you probably don't use your name because of your tendency or because you are repeatedly told “John”. Unless there is an embargo, African elephants are the first non-human animals that give the impression of being human with abstract sounds that other animals cannot name.
This is a preliminary question, but I have no doubt that the elephants' reason for being among themselves is that they assign certain sounds to certain objects in order to communicate about making sounds that humans cannot imitate. This is in fact the driving force behind what we can talk about. We quickly saw that this means that elephants can name other objects, but this is possible if they cannot name other objects.
Caitlin O'Connell Rodwell, an acoustic biologist at Harvard Medical School who was not involved in the project, described the research as “game changing.”
“Recently, artificial intelligence and automated learning tools have made this type of analysis feasible,” O'Connell-Rodwell asserts.The researchers' argument prompts a high level of communication on the part of the children, asserting that “when the intention to find food is widespread, all the emotions in the world are heightened and a specific need for contact is felt.”
It reveals what we know about elephant communication and “how important this social text is to the survival of these animals,” says Wittemyer, who asserts that “social connection is important in all relationships with elephants.”
“To help the public, including the elephants and humans who benefit from conservation, we need to remember a few things,” Wittemyer said.