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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 green sea turtle, harbour seals, African penguins and Helen, a Pacific white-sided dolphin. Herschend ha...

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 or both ears and then went about her day with her new statement accessories clearly visible to the wo...

» 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 industry, scientists found. This could be an example of animal "culture", the lead author of the stud...

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 evidence that whales could pass on behaviors through "social learning," according to a new study.  Th...

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 around to be killed? The answer? They didn’t. Using newly digitised logbooks detailing the hunting...