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Do whales grieve? Scientists’ research off Australia’s Gold Coast suggests they might | Olaf Meynecke for the Conversation

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Do whales grieve? Scientists’ research off Australia’s Gold Coast suggests they might | Olaf Meynecke for the Conversation

The behaviours we observed could represent grief, but they could also reflect maternal attachment, confusion or instinctive caregiving It was a tragic sight.

One day last July, a newborn humpback whale calf lay motionless on the seafloor, just a kilometre off Australia’s Gold Coast.

The encounter was captured through underwater video .

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