By Victoria GillScience reporter, BBC News
Scientists studying one of the ocean's most mysterious whale species have found they form long-term alliances.
Researchers studied the whales in the cold waters off the remote Commander Islands, eastern Russia
Baird's beaked whales, sometimes called giant bottlenose whales, seem to prefer the company of specific individuals.
Researchers who identified the whales by scars on their bodies, are calling for hunting of the species to be halted while more information is gathered about their complex social structure.
Currently, they are hunted by whalers off northern Japan.
The new findings have been published in the journal Marine Mammal Science.
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