Hello, everybody.

Welcome to another wonderful weekend edition of Daily Tech News show,

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And joining us today is Dr. Nicky.

We are going to talk about a new paper in the journal Marine Mammal Science,

where researchers used a drone to film sperm whales headbutting for the first time.

Well, they may have not been headbutting for the first time,

but it's the first time we've captured them on film.

So we're going to learn about how drones help science.

Yeah, we'll use this paper as a jumping off point and then dive into all the other drone applications.

But of course, this paper came across my radar or sonar because I'm the headbutting person.

Right.

Perfect.

Yeah.

It's been hypothesized, you know, since Moby Dick, basically, that whales headbut things.

But thanks to this drone footage in the Azores, we now can prove it with video that they

actually underwater sperm whales will you know they have this

giant bump in the front of their head called the junk and they'll ran into each other with it

kind of like rams do on land potentially you know fighting for mates and uh we now know this thanks

to a drone uh sperm whales the, the Rams of the Sea.

Yes, and I will be using that.

But so this is just a cool example that I got really excited about.

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