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Re:Humpback whales around the globe are mysteriously rescuin... by Aelinsaar on Thursday August 04, 2016 @09:56AM (#12225483)
That would be quite the impressive bit of generalized cognition and logic from a whale, perhaps even more significant than feeling something.
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Re:Humpback whales around the globe are mysteriously rescuin... by Kapow on Thursday August 04, 2016 @11:41AM (#12226271)
It wouldn't need to involve cognition and logic, it could be evolutionary coincidence: humpback whales with behavior that happens to result in fewer orcas nearby would have more surviving offspring, so this behavior would be selected for.
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Re:Humpback whales around the globe are mysteriously rescuin... by Aelinsaar on Thursday August 04, 2016 @05:21PM (#12228578)
Right, right, I missed that completely, damn!
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