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In April, Ocean Wise, the non-profit conservation organization struggling to shepherd the Vancouver Aquarium through the pandemic, admitted defeat and sold to a private company, Herschend Enterprises. Herschend, an American theme-park corporation that already owns two aquariums, says it will be business as usual when the doors once again open to the public. For now, that entails maintaining and displaying the 70,000 animals currently housed in the aquarium, including sea otters, sloths, a gree...

Meet the Other Social Influencers of the Animal Kingdom Culture, once considered exclusive to humans, turns out to be widespread in nature. A chimpanzee in the Chimfunshi wildlife sanctuary in Zambia, where one chimp began a tradition of wearing a blade of grass in the ear, which carried on after her death.Credit...David Pike/Alamy May 7, 2021 Julia, her friends and family agreed, had style. When, out of the blue, the 18-year-old chimpanzee began inserting long, stiff blades of grass into one o...

» Whales can learn about danger and can warn each other, according to a study of how they dodged whaling ships in the 19th century Whales can learn about danger and can warn each other, according to a study of how they dodged whaling ships in the 19th century Marianne GuenotApr 7, 2021, 16:59 IST An annotated image of a sperm whale.Insider/Francois Gohier/VW Pics/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Sperm whales changed their That behavior spread among sperm whales and disrupted the whaling in...

Insider/Francois Gohier/VW Pics/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Sperm whales changed their behavior to dodge whaling ships in the 1800s, according to a study. That behavior spread among sperm whales and disrupted the whaling industry, scientists found. This could be an example of animal "culture", the lead author of the study told Insider. Sperm whales learned to escape from whaling boats in the 19th century and passed the information to other whales, adding ev...

Last modified on Thu 18 Mar 2021 10.38 EDT A remarkable new study on how whales behaved when attacked by humans in the 19th century has implications for the way they react to changes wreaked by humans in the 21st century. The paper, published by the Royal Society on Wednesday, is authored by Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell, pre-eminent scientists working with cetaceans, and Tim D Smith, a data scientist, and their research addresses an age-old question: if whales are so smart, why did they hang ...

by The Canadian Press Last Updated Mar 17, 2021 at 2:55 pm ADT HALIFAX — New research from a team including a Dalhousie University biologist suggests sperm whales taught each other to avoid whalers in the 18th and 19th centuries. The scientists published a paper today in the journal Biology Letters saying sperm whales in the North Pacific quickly changed their habits to avoid open-boat whalers. Dalhousie biology professor Hal Whitehead, co-author of the study, says log books from American wha...

Sperm whales faced with the threat of mankind 200 years ago taught each other how to avoid getting killed, new research has found. The ocean mammals, the largest toothed predators in the world, are thought to have underwent cultural evolution due to the pressure of whalers harpoons. Vast amounts of culling was driven by growing demand for whalebone, ivory and the valuable oil derived from blubber. But sperm whales — which have the largest brains of any animal — learned when and how they wer...

Brandon Sun By: Danielle Edwards, The Canadian Press Posted: Last Modified: 4:07 PM CDT Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2021 HALIFAX - New research from a team including a Dalhousie University biologistsuggests sperm whales taught each other to avoid whalers in the 18th and 19th centuries. Rescue personnel come to the aid of an injured sperm whale stranded in the coastal waters of in San Bartolo, P...

The Whale Who Will Come Soon A whale-watching trip is a voyage into the psychic dimensions of ocean in the 21st century By Rebecca Giggs The beachfront narrows to an ocherous ribbon, belted by blue, above and below. After a while, a handful of shearwaters appear in the air above the Cat Balou. The birds flash around us; like knife-thrower tricks at a circus. Diving through the water, each is crowned in a diadem of bubbles. The shearwaters come from Antarctica, like the humpbacks, and also Sibe...