Uploaded April 2014 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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A study by the Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute found that juvenile male killer whales are capable of learning new call types when they undergo a change in social association.

Learning whether social association affects the calls of killer whales sheds important light on how wild populations of whales interact. Scientists still don't know if and how populations of killer whales can merge. The data from this study give clues about how that might occur.

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