- As whaling grew in the 18th and 18th centuries, sperm whales in the North Pacific very quickly learned—from each other—how to fend off the whalers’ harpoons, whose successful “strike” rate dropped by 58 percent in only a few years. https://www.popsci.com/story/animals/sperm-whale-culture/ 13 comments science
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- Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information | Whales | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/17/sperm-whales-in-19th-century-shared-ship-attack-information 82 comments
- Oceans Are Getting Louder, Posing Potential Threats to Marine Life - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/science/oceans-whales-noise-offshore-drilling.html 15 comments
- Adaptation of sperm whales to open-boat whalers: rapid social learning on a large scale? | Biology Letters https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0030 0 comments
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