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Cultural identity in sperm whales

PNAS Science Sessions

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Embedding a Symbolic Marker in Sperm Whales

The study documented a pattern consistent with what we see for humans. But that says nothing about how the whales are actually perceiving these different types of codas. "It's really hard to say symbolic marker means that there's some sort of symbolic representation happening in the brain"

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