Skip to main contentSkip to navigationSkip to navigation 0:49 Rare footage shows whales working together to support mother and her newborn – video Scientists film whale giving birth while other whales work together to help herFemale named Rounder surrounded by family members when about to give birth to her second calf Scientists have managed to film a sperm whale giving birth while other female whales worked together to support the mother and her newborn.A team from Project Ceti, an international effort seeking to understand how whales communicate, was in a boat near a pod of 11 whales off the coast of the Caribbean island of Dominica on 8 July 2023.A 19-year-old female named Rounder was surrounded by family members and others as she was about to give birth to her second calf.Over nearly five and a half hours, the scientists documented the group’s behaviour, watching them from the boat, filming them with drones and recording the sounds underneath the waves. The data they collected, which was published on Thursday in the journals Scientific Reports and Science, represents an exceptional rarity in the history of science.Out of 93 species of cetaceans – a group that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises – only nine have ever been observed giving birth in the wild. Rarer still was that whales not related to the…
Published: March 27, 2026 8:46 pm
Source: The Guardian — Read original