Northern Residents make began picking up the odd appearance of calls from other pods among whales that would socialize with those pods and not only when those other pods were present. At odd times well away from those pods, orcas were heard making their stereotyped calls to one another. “Mimicking another group’s calls could be a way of referring to that group … or of communicating something about that group to one’s own family members,”
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Usi g another pods sounds might be a way of referring to that pod
