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Tracking 600 belugas’ DNA over 13 years revealed the Arctic whales rarely keep the same mate twice, among the most flexible mating systems known in whales

A 13-year genetic study of 623 beluga whales in Alaska’s Bristol Bay has produced one of the clearest pictures yet of how these Arctic cetaceans choose their mates, and the answer is: they almost ...
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Scientists tracked 600 beluga whales in Alaska’s Bristol Bay for 13 years and found they keep swapping mates, upending the idea that the whales pair off for life

A 13-year genetic study of 623 beluga whales in Alaska’s Bristol Bay has overturned a long-standing assumption about how ...