Comments on: Book review – The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins

By: Book review – The Killer Whale Journals: Our Love and Fear of Orcas | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 20:21:45 +0000

[…] causing a headache for conservation biologists. This behaviour is a prominent example of culture in cetaceans as it is learned and passed on from generation to generation. Strager also discusses the recent […]

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By: Book review – Biocivilisations: A New Look at the Science of Life | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 31 May 2024 11:42:36 +0000

[…] appeal to many biologists. In my reviews, I have discussed ant architecture, termite engineering, cetacean culture, the hows and whys of animal communication, the mental lives of animals (including emotions, […]

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By: Book review – The Voices of Nature: How and Why Animals Communicate | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 12:44:14 +0000

[…] of reptiles is underappreciated and includes acoustic communication), and underwater (including vocal dialects in various cetaceans). He discusses how vocalisations are produced and heard, how individuals learn to vocalize, how […]

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By: Book review – Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn to be Animals | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 10 Jul 2020 10:05:32 +0000

[…] I admit I have a thing for the denizens of the deep. Just as Safina previously showed orcas to be fascinating, here he taught me how little I know about sperm whales. Clearly, I must read up on them. They communicate in clicks generated by the world’s most powerful animal sonar. Beyond finding squid in the deep, unique patterns of clicks (so-called codas) announce group membership to other whales. Sperm whale families worldwide are organised in different clans that do not mingle, each sounding their own coda. And these have to be learned by youngsters. Safina furthermore gives a searing history of whaling and its effects and considers what we know of culture in other cetaceans. […]

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By: Book review – Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 06 Jul 2020 10:33:56 +0000

[…] killer whales? These highly social and long-lived marine mammals live in pods that, like other cetaceans, show what can only be called culture. Such as their exceptional dietary specialisation that is […]

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By: Book review – Deep Thinkers: An Exploration of Intelligence in Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 00:13:49 +0000

[…] excellent books in recent years, such as Are Dolphins Really Smart?: The Mammal Behind the Myth, The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins, and Dolphin Communication and Cognition: Past, Present, and Future. Ivy Press typically produces […]

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By: Book review – Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean’s Greatest Predator | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 15 Oct 2018 08:23:25 +0000

[…] opportunity to study living orcas up close and learned much about their intense social nature (see The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins for an up-to-date overview). In combination, this caused public opinion to shift dramatically […]

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By: Book review – Are Dolphins Really Smart? The Mammal Behind the Myth | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 16 Oct 2017 17:13:30 +0000

[…] and Cognition: Past, Present, and Future, and Rendell & Whitehead’s 2014 book The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins) is reviewed and put into the context of research on animal cognition at large, and Gregg […]

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