Monday 16 April 2018

Like human societies, whales value culture and family ties



Groundbreaking genetic kinship study of beluga whales

Date:  April 5, 2018
Source:  Florida Atlantic University

In a detailed genetic kinship study, an international team is the first to reveal that just like human societies, beluga whales appear to value culture and their ancestral roots and family ties. They have demonstrated that related whales returned to the same locations year after year, and decade after decade. Not only do these whales know where to go and where not to go, they are passing on this information from one generation to the next.


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