In the early 1980s, Hal Whitehead and other budding whale biologists set their sails across the Indian Ocean in search of whales.The International Whaling Commission had just declared the Indian Ocean as a giant no-whaling sanctuary.Whitehead and crew’s post-whaling reconnaissance aimed to see what was left.Near Sri Lanka, they encountered sperm whales, groups of intensely social females and calves, surprisingly shy and incessantly clicking.That and subsequent sailing expeditions meeting sperm whale groups in the Paci?c and Atlantic oceans, as well as humpback andotherwhalework,setWhiteheadonapathleadingtoTheCulturalLivesofWhalesandDolphins (Whitehead and Rendell, 2015).
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