#88: The Amazing Life of Whales
English Learning for Curious Minds
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Whales Can Learn Sounds
Only six animals are known to be able to learn sounds. These include parrots, song birds, humming birds, bats, cetaceans or whales. And can you guess the last one? It's us, humans. Because whales can learn sounds. They pass down knowledge of these sounds through generations. Young whales listen to the sounds that their mothers and the members of the group make so that they can teach them. Different whales have different accents - a blue whale in the north pacific might make a very different sound to a whale from the south atlantic. Humpbacke whales will sing for hours at a time. This was an amazing discovery, as there are very
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