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Average rating: 4.15 · 323 ratings · 44 reviews · 8 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Cultural Lives of Whale...

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Animal Social Complexity: I...

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Sperm Whales: Social Evolut...

4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions
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Cetacean Societies: Field S...

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4.60 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions
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Voyage to the Whales

4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions
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Analyzing Animal Societies:...

4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions
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The Question of Animal Culture

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Dolfijnen, walvissen en bru...

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“The cooperatives seem to have ended with the advent of Europeans along the coast, Europeans who on occasion killed the cooperative dolphins. There”
Hal Whitehead, The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins

“A religion that promotes fecundity will likely increase the number of its practitioners. And”
Hal Whitehead, The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins

“Sonar users can sense the bottom and sides of the ocean—islands, seamounts, and coasts—as well as each other, getting detailed pictures of the shapes and inner structures (as in ultrasound scans of human pregnancies—ultrasound is sonar) of potential prey, social partners, and competitors. Sonar can also alert them to the presence of predators, but primarily the sonar of the toothed whales is about finding food.”
Hal Whitehead, The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins

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