In the first known toolmaking by a marine mammal, southern residents have been documented detaching lengths of seaweed and ...

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The discovery — published June 23 in Current Biology — constitutes the “first evidence” recorded of tool-making by marine mammals. “ We were amazed when we first noticed this,” Michael Weiss, the ...

Orcas were spotted using kelp as a grooming tool on each other, the first known use of tools among cetaceans for something ...

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Primates, birds, and elephants are all known to make tools, but examples of tool use among marine animals are much more ...

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Scientists have spotted a subset of killer whales using seaweed to scratch each other’s backs, marking the first known ...

A new study reveals killer whales fashion kelp into tools and use them to groom each other, a possible first for marine ...

The orcas clearly liked this activity because different whales were recorded preparing the stems eight times and rolling the ...