Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬Scientists Filmed a #Whale #Birth. The Surprise: Mom Had Many Helpers.
Involving a group of #spermwhales, adds to evidence that humans aren’t the only species that gets some form of assistance during and after delivery.
In #whales, it appears that baleen species are more solitary during birth and that the mother alone raises the calf to the surface to breathe. But for some toothed species, like sperm whales, birth is a collective experience.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/climate/sperm-whale-birth-assistance.html
https://archive.ph/dPGZV
Involving a group of #spermwhales, adds to evidence that humans aren’t the only species that gets some form of assistance during and after delivery.
In #whales, it appears that baleen species are more solitary during birth and that the mother alone raises the calf to the surface to breathe. But for some toothed species, like sperm whales, birth is a collective experience.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/climate/sperm-whale-birth-assistance.html
https://archive.ph/dPGZV
