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The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins (Paperback)
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The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins (Paperback)
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List price R669
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Discovery Miles 5 740
You Save R95 (14%)
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In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer
whales learning to knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way
their mother does; and in the use of sea sponges by the dolphins of
Shark Bay, Australia, to protect their beaks while foraging for
fish, we find clear examples of the transmission of information
among cetaceans. Just as human cultures pass on languages and turns
of phrase, tastes in food (and in how it is acquired), and modes of
dress, could whales and dolphins have developed a culture of their
very own? Unequivocally: yes. In The Cultural Lives of Whales and
Dolphins, cetacean biologists Hal Whitehead, who has spent much of
his life on the ocean trying to understand whales, and Luke
Rendell, whose research focuses on the evolution of social
learning, open an astounding porthole onto the fascinating culture
beneath the waves. As Whitehead and Rendell show, cetacean culture
and its transmission are shaped by a blend of adaptations, innate
sociality, and the unique environment in which whales and dolphins
live: a watery world in which a hundred-and-fifty-ton blue whale
can move with utter grace, and where the vertical expanse is as
vital, and almost as vast, as the horizontal. Drawing on their own
research as well as a scientific literature as immense as the
sea--including evolutionary biology, animal behavior, ecology,
anthropology, psychology, and neuroscience--Whitehead and Rendell
dive into realms both humbling and enlightening as they seek to
define what cetacean culture is, why it exists, and what it means
for the future of whales and dolphins. And, ultimately, what it
means for our future, as well.
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