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Article: Killer whales like to party in 'social clubs'!
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- August 13, 2009
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London, August. 13 -- Scientists have discovered that killer whales create and visit social clubs just like human beings.
Up to 100 fish-eating killer whales come together in the Avacha Gulf, off the coast of Russia. But no one knew why the whales form these huge superpods, when they normally live in smaller groups.
Now, according to a report by BBC News, these groups act as clubs in which the killer whales form and maintain social ties.
Fish-eating killer whales in the Avacha Gulf live in stable groups called pods that contain an average of ten individuals and up to 20 in the largest pods.
But, researchers have seen up to eight of these pods coming together to form large groups of up to ...