(UPDATE) PARIS — Elephants call out to each other using individual names that they invent for their fellow pachyderms, a study said on Monday.

While dolphins and parrots have been observed addressing each other by mimicking the sound of others from their species, elephants are the first nonhuman animals known to use names that do not involve imitation, the researchers suggested.

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