May 6, 2020 • 51 mins
33 years of behavioral research with Alaska's Humpback Whales.
- Formative years as a whale biologist.
- The remarkable characteristics of Humpback Whales.
- Songs of the Humpback Whale.
- Whale brains, four times as large as a human brain.
- Spindle neurons and social behavior.
- Whale communication, ocean acoustics.
- "Whale internet".
- Concerns: Ocean noise, ships, military, seismic testing, entanglements.
- Warm water anomaly: "the blob".
- Whales and humans: similarities in social behaviors, cooperation, altruism.
- Whale health vigilance: promising research tools and practices.
- Whale vocalizations, structure & implications for what constitutes intelligence.
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