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All things green, outdoors, and nature-y. Whether it's animals in their natural habitat, hiking trails and mountains, or planting a little garden for yourself (and everything in between), you can talk about it here.

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Elephants have names for each other, just like humans (www.zmescience.com)

submitted 10 months ago by pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe to c/greenspace@beehaw.org

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[–] schmorpel@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago

I understand being frustrated about the title, it drives me insane as well. However I do imagine it can be pretty difficult for scienctists to publish anything directly spelling out the idea that animals are people. This sometimes gives me the impression that explaining it to the mainstream public in baby steps is the only way to go?

I would say if naming these correlations "names" helps the protection of elephants go ahead.