Maurício Cantor, a biologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has found that sperm whales also believe that families should stay together and they follow the same and remain united for many years. They also seek other families having similar behavior and those who produce the same kinds of sounds, whale clicking sounds.

The sperm whales that take out same clicking sounds hang out with each other, but they also copy each other’s songs. It means that groups of whales form their own dialects, their own style of culture. Cantor and colleagues developed a computer simulation of generation after generation of virtual whales.

The researchers found that no other factor can explain about the emergence of the clans and dialects in sperm whale society. “I'm not trying to say that the types of culture the whale has are the same as human culture. Obviously human culture is much more diverse and complex and cumulative and symbolic. But it's very fascinating just to see that they can have some type of similarities”, said Cantor.

Mauricio Cantor of Dalhousie University in Canada and Hal Whitehead, who has studied sperm for three decades, said that the whales learn the dialect of particular thing is a cultural thing. Prof Hal Whitehead said that two clans do not mix. They will behave differently, move differently and they babysit their babies differently.