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Do elephants have names for each other?
Machine learning and careful observation suggest that some of the animals’ calls are specific to individuals, similar to a person’s name.
Machine learning and careful observation suggest that some of the animals’ calls are specific to individuals, similar to a person’s name.
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In June 2004, the results of an ambitious Antarctic ice-drilling project brought insight into hundreds of thousands of years of climatic changes. The extraordinary sample still has much to offer climate research — even as its successor is being drilled.