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    How Climate Change Makes Social Learning Among Animals More Important

    by Claudia Geib Oct 29, 2016 3 minutes

    Put yourself in the mind of a killer whale. Let’s say you’re the little guy in the picture below.

    Killer whalesMike Charest / Flickr

    So far, you’ve lived off of a diet of only marine mammals: seals, sea lions, porpoises, even otters on occasion. Your family has taught you how to hunt these animals. You spend hours swimming alongside your pod, learning how to be silent, how to sneak up on your prey. This way of life is all you know.

    So what do you do if, one day,

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