The cultural lives of whales and dolphins
"In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea sponges by the dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, to protect their beaks while foraging for fish, we find clear examples of th...
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Culture in the ocean?
- Culture?
- Mammals of the ocean
- Song of the whale
- What the dolphins do
- Mother cultures of the large toothed whales
- How do they do it?
- Is this evidence for culture?
- How the whales got culture
- Whale culture and whale genes
- The implications of culture : ecosystems, individuals, stupidity, and conservation
- The cultural whales : how we see them and how we treat them
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