African Elephants Address One Another with Individually Specific Name-Like Calls

African elephants address one another with individually specific name-like calls

Personal names are a universal feature of human language, yet few analogues exist in other species. While dolphins and parrots address conspecifics by imitating the calls of the addressee, human names are not imitations of the sounds typically made by the named individual. Labelling objects or individuals without relying on imitation of the sounds made by the referent radically expands the expressive power of language. Thus, if non-imitative nam…

Harmonizing Global Insolvency Proceedings from Theory to Practice: A Comparative Analysis of Centre of Main Interest (COMI) Determination and Judicial Trends

This study compares the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom (UK), and the United States of America (USA) to examine how cross-border insolvency (CBI) ideas are applied in the real world. It focuses on theories of territorialism, universalism, and modified universalism. This study assesses the...