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The sperm whales gathered around the mother before the delivery.  (Y. Aluma et al., Scientific Reports, 2026 under CC-BY-4.0)
Watch Unprecedented Footage of Sperm Whales Helping a Newborn Calf Take Its First Breaths
Unrelated animals worked with the mother and her relatives, marking the first known evidence of whales from multiple families assisting in a birth
Sara Hashemi
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