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How sperm whale vocal dialects evolve as they adopt new calls while still remembering the old

New research from the University of St. Andrews shows how sperm whale vocal dialects evolve as they adopt new calls while still remembering the old. An international team of researchers studying vocal dialects in the endangered population of sperm whales that live in the Mediterranean Sea has captur...

How sperm whale vocal dialects evolve as they adopt new calls while still remembering the old
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New research from the University of St. Andrews shows how sperm whale vocal dialects evolve as they adopt new calls while still remembering the old. An international team of researchers studying vocal dialects in the endangered population of sperm whales that live in the Mediterranean Sea has captured the cultural evolution of new dialects in process.

Originally published at Phys.org

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