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sheshe2

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1. Cool!
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 11:19 PM
Mar 2015

During these rough times, the researchers saw that post-reproductive females would swim at the heads of hunting groups with young male whales in close pursuit. They were almost always the matriarch’s sons.




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Mom rules!

I love this, thanks ism~

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Cool! sheshe2 Mar 2015 #1
I thought it was pretty badass myself! ismnotwasm Mar 2015 #2
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