Ok! lol you first!
: )
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Definitley I will go first, and if they eat me then I’ll probably make front page news for that!
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You don’t have to even be a smart whale to understand that, was a lot worse for them before the international ban on commercial whaling for profit in 1986.
https://www.animallaw.info/article/overview-laws-and-regulations-protecting-whales
Iceland, Norway, and Japan still hunt whales today.
There is the “100th Monkey” effect - The hundredth monkey effect is a hypothetical phenomenon in which a new behavior or idea is spread rapidly by unexplained means from one group to all related groups once a critical number of members of one group exhibit the new behavior or acknowledge the new idea. The behavior was said to propagate even to groups that are physically separated and have no apparent means of communicating with each other.[1]
At first this seems highly theoretical but if you read the history of the idea, it came about because of a set of specific studies conducted in the 50s in an area of islands in which monkeys were physically and audibly separated, but it was observed that once a monkey imitated another monkey’s new behavior cleaning some food, all the others in the group picked it up, and then it was suddenly on the other islands in monkey groups there. So it’s an observable phenomenon, and very highly likely with other species of animals including humans (and whales).
Stupid writer doesn’t even know Whales and Monkeys are telepathic.
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I agree @Voxypopuli - learning behaviour is common in other social species. We’re quite amazed with what researchers have been learning about fish, too.
E.g., Quote from this article: Fish Can Multitask: Scientific Review Finds that Fish are Both Cognitively and Behaviorally Complex - Farm Sanctuary
"… [Fish] can:
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- “live in complex social communities where they keep track of individuals and can learn from one another, a process that leads to the development of stable cultural traditions … similar to some of those seen in birds and primates”;
- “cooperate with one another and show signs of Machiavellian intelligence such as cooperation and reconciliation”;
…"
And quote from this article: Fish Rival Chimpanzees in Forming Cooperative Relationships | Psychology Today
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Fish are known to be intelligent, emotional, and clearly sentient beings. Now, a new and very significant experiment shows that coral trout actually rival chimpanzees in choosing the best moray eel with whom to cooperate to get a meal that both can share…”
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Orca asks for help
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Wow, they even gave the rescue team a manta ray for their trouble! good story
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