Jawaan!

Scientists are starting to consider the notion that whales might have a pretty cool culture. Maybe the Great White Whale was smarter than Ahab (and that’s totally cool!). “Whales are pretty hard to study, but evidence is coming up from quite a number of species that in a whole range of ways, they’re learning things from each other and they’re passing it on tob v other whales, and that’s culture,” says Hal Whitehead, biology professor at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada.  Whitehead says whales don’t have opposable thumbs, so they can’t craft material objects to pass on through the generations: “Whale cultures are in their minds and not in the things that they make.” “Whale culture has, like human culture, a range of types and styles,” says Whitehead.

Read more here:
Zeroing in on Whale Culture: Language is the Key