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Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information – The Guardian

Whalers’ logbooks show rapid drop in strike rate in north Pacific due to changes in cetacean behaviour

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WhalesWhalers logbooks show rapid drop in strike rate in north Pacific due to changes in cetacean behaviour
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…

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