Whales Get Feeding Tips From Their Friends (3 of 5) (IMAGE)

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Whales Get Feeding Tips From Their Friends (3 of 5)

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This shows a humpback whale lobtailing prior to feeding dive. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the April 26, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Jenny Allen at University of St Andrews in St Andrews, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Network-Based Diffusion Analysis Reveals Cultural Transmission of Lobtail Feeding in Humpback Whales."

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[Image courtesy of Jennifer Allen/Ocean Alliance]

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