Editing Name (section)

==Name use by animals and plants==
{{main|Common name}}
{{see|List of historical common names|List of animal names}}

The use of personal names is not unique to humans. [[Dolphin]]s<ref name="dolphin names">{{cite news|date=May 8, 2006|title=Dolphins Name Themselves With Whistles, Study Says|publisher=National Geographic News|url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/060508_dolphins.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061114081946/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/060508_dolphins.html|archive-date=November 14, 2006}}</ref> and [[green-rumped parrotlet]]s<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Berg|first1=Karl S.|last2=Delgado|first2=Soraya|last3=Okawa|first3=Rae|last4=Beissinger|first4=Steven R.|last5=Bradbury|first5=Jack W.|date=2011-01-01|title=Contact calls are used for individual mate recognition in free-ranging green-rumped parrotlets, Forpus passerinus|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347210004148|journal=Animal Behaviour|language=en|volume=81|issue=1|pages=241–248|doi=10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.10.012|s2cid=42150361|issn=0003-3472|access-date=2020-10-25|archive-date=2011-12-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111223235949/http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347210004148|url-status=live}}</ref> also use symbolic names to address [[contact call]]s to specific individuals. Individual dolphins have distinctive signature whistles, to which they will respond even when there is no other information to clarify which dolphin is being referred to.