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Why Do Whales Sing?

But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids

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Can Short Fin Pilot Whales Produce a Variety of Whistles?

They travel around in these family groups and those family groups are stable for decades or generations at a time. So different families will have different vocalizations that are specific just to those families. And we've seen that that they can really do make a lot of really interesting variations on the whistles that they make.

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