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Whales and dolphins have rich 'human-like' cultures and societies
ScienceDaily ^
| October 16, 2017
Posted on 10/18/2017 3:18:09 PM PDT by EveningStar
Whales and dolphins (cetaceans) live in tightly-knit social groups, have complex relationships, talk to each other and even have regional dialects -- much like human societies. A major new study has linked the complexity of Cetacean culture and behavior to the size of their brains.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: animalintelligence; animals; cetacea; cetaceans; dolphins; society; whales
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To: EveningStar
Is there a Hillary dolphin or whale that insists she should be in charge?
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posted on
10/18/2017 3:19:48 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: EveningStar
Fake science.
Or at least exaggerated and fanciful reporting.
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posted on
10/18/2017 3:24:04 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: EveningStar
Whales and dolphins have rich 'human-like' cultures and societies You can tell by their skyscrapers and electric cars...
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posted on
10/18/2017 3:26:49 PM PDT
by
Magnatron
To: EveningStar
Land whales....
Much like their sea borne counterparts they can't use tools or make anything of note except for constant noise.
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posted on
10/18/2017 3:28:28 PM PDT
by
GraceG
("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
To: EveningStar
Where are the dolphin/whale hospitals?
The dolphin/whale libraries?
The dolphin/whale universities?
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posted on
10/18/2017 3:32:51 PM PDT
by
Arm_Bears
(Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
To: Magnatron
“Whales and dolphins have rich ‘human-like’ cultures and societies
You can tell by their skyscrapers and electric cars...”
Don’t forget their Medical Schools.
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posted on
10/18/2017 3:33:42 PM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
10/18/2017 3:35:16 PM PDT
by
Westbrook
(Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
To: Arm_Bears
The dolphin/whale universities?
Young whales usually skip college and go straight into dad's plankton business after high school ...
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posted on
10/18/2017 3:38:11 PM PDT
by
x
To: Westbrook
Most researchers are aware that cetacean culture is dominated by male hormones. They are continually sexually active, much like certain members of the human community.
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posted on
10/18/2017 3:40:58 PM PDT
by
Louis Foxwell
(Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
To: Arm_Bears
"Where are the dolphin/whale hospitals? The dolphin/whale libraries? The dolphin/whale universities?" It is also rather difficult for them to make useful use of smartphones, and computers, and video games, with their sizeable flippers, and their flapping flukes, and their dorsal fins...
To: EveningStar
Until the dolphins figure out a way to avoid the fishing nets, they’re just dumb fish............
To: laplata
And their chess games, not to mention all those dolphin scientists studying marine fungi and coccolithophores. Do they have scientific journals?
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posted on
10/18/2017 3:47:18 PM PDT
by
Fungi
(What the hell is a fungus?)
To: EveningStar
Don't know of any wholes or dolphins designing 747s or performing brain surgery.
To: Fungi
“Do they have scientific journals”?
I haven’t seen any. They must have dropped them off when they landed on the moon.
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posted on
10/18/2017 3:49:43 PM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: EveningStar
wholes or dolphins = whales or dolphins
To: EveningStar
LOL!
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posted on
10/18/2017 3:50:42 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: UCANSEE2
That dolphin looks like Hillary in the video of her bobbing and shaking her head.
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posted on
10/18/2017 3:52:33 PM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: Fungi
You have to admit, though, that their music sounds a helluva lot better than some of that crap Hannity plays on his radio show at times.
:-) Whale Music
To: Pray All Day
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posted on
10/18/2017 4:02:01 PM PDT
by
Fungi
(What the hell is a fungus?)
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