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Do Sperm Whales Have Culture?

Do Sperm Whales Have Culture?

Update: 2024-04-15
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These marine mammals are very hard to observe, but in the past two decades the roughly 20 or so people in the world who study sperm whales have found some compelling evidence of culture among them.

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