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Topic: Sperm Whales

Sperm whale and sound-waves, illustration. (Getty Images/VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Maybe don't use AI to talk with whales

Levi Stallings
Common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) (Getty Images/Anup Shah)

Like us, these five animals have culture

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A bumblebee, chimpanzee and humpback whale (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Do animals have social lives?

Matthew Rozsa
(AP Photo/Lasanthi Benedict)

Why are whales big, but not bigger?

Matthew Savoca, Jeremy Goldbogen, Nicholas Pyenson - The Conversation
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How plastic pollution is killing whales

Nicole Karlis
A 12 meter long dead sperm whale lies stranded on the beach on the island of Fanoe close to Esbjerg at the Danish North Sea coast. The whale, apparently, has been dead for a couple of days and biologists are now preparing for a dissection the big animal. (AP/Photo Marco Brodde/POLFOTO) DENMARK OUT (AP)

Greg Norman - GlobalPost
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