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Scientists with the Center for Whale Research in Friday Harbor observed a common behavior across all three Southern Resident pods: Whales grabbed stalks of bull kelp and used their teeth and the ...

Scientists with the Center for Whale Research in Friday Harbor observed a common behavior across all three Southern Resident pods: Whales grabbed stalks of bull kelp and used their teeth and the ...

Killer whales have joined the rare club of animals that can make and use tools, for the first time being observed crafting a kind of brush out of kelp and then using it on fellow pod members.

Credit: Center for Whale Research, NMFS NOAA Permit 27038 Primates, birds, and elephants are all known to make tools, but examples of tool use among marine animals are much more limited.

Scientists have spotted a subset of killer whales using seaweed to scratch each other’s backs, marking the first known ...

Two whales allokelping, with a small length of kelp stem visible between them. CREDIT: Center for Whale Research, NMFS NOAA Permit 270. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs ...

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New research suggests orcas nuzzle each other with kelp, possibly for its exfoliation effect. Center for Whale Research, NMFS/NOAA permit 27038 Step aside, primates and crows.

Rising toxins found in bowhead whales, harvested for subsistence purposes by Alaska Native communities, reveal ...

A killer whale holds a piece of kelp in its mouth. (Center for Whale Research) Southern resident killer whales are a critically endangered population protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.