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We humans are social creatures.

We stick together.

Family traditionally came first, then more distant relatives, then larger groups of

unrelated individuals, connected by culture.

But it turns out the same could be said for sperm whales.

So usually you find the female and their mom and, you know, the grandmas and the ants, and they all stay together for many years.

Maricio Cantor, a biologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He says those

closely related family groups then seek out other families with similar behavior.

They tend to hang out or stay together with those that produce the same types of sounds.

Meaning whale clicks are based on producing similar clicks.

And similarly clicking whales don't just hang out together, he says.

They also emulate each other's songs or codas, meaning clans of whales evolve their own dialects,

their own form of culture.

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