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Episode 179: Keyhole

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Whale Behavior - The Mystery of the Whaling Industry

Sotologists studying whales have to piece together there our understanding of these creatures from incomplete fragments. Whaling industry itself employed countless people on land and on sea, while it killed something near 200, forty thousand sperm whales in the process. We are not entirely sure what biological function that sperm aseti even serves for the sperm whale. The sperm whale eats a ton of food, a literal ton, two thousand pounds, every single day, mostly squid. And we have never seen he eat an ounce of it. It happens too deep. There are fundamental questions that we have about how they live, how they hunt, how they breed and feed and communicate, that are entirely mysterious because we live

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