Name: What whales can teach us about living our best life | BBC Ideas
Uploaded: 2020-10-08T19:11:04.000Z
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Whales are definitely more like humans than we might think.

they have quite an advanced communication methodology

and we can learn a lot about humans by looking at that culture.

Whales have their own dialects and they build communities

which are centred around where they're from.

So for whales, community and being connected to

and live their entire lives together, is so important.

Whales will pass down information from generation to generation

through whale song. And similarly, we as humans,

will share information through our stories -

often folk tales and nursery rhymes and fairy stories.

The males express themselves through sound, but the females

through slapping their tails on the surface of the ocean.

It's just another way for them to communicate but physically.

So we know that one group of humpback whales,

they'll be singing their song that they all prefer,

and it will change very slightly over time, as they sing it to each other,

as the males sing during the breeding season,

Now there might be another group, say the other side of Australia,

and that group is singing an entirely different song

that's number one in their pop charts, if you like.

occasionally one or two of the whales from the other side of Australia

will be heard by the first bunch of whales

that song that was number one for that first group of whales

and becomes exactly the same, practically,

as the song that was the number one hit for the other bunch of whales

You can think of it almost as a total remix

done by one bunch of whales on the other.

During the summer months, they actually stay in the colder waters

and they feed, that's their feeding ground.

But then during the winter, they kind of go on holiday

to these warmer tropical waters and that's their breeding ground,

that's the breeding season for humpback whales -

With all of the seriousness of what we can learn from these animals,

actually, the pure joy of life is this wonderful added dimension

that we can't forget. It's so important to have fun.

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