Playful whales can use seaweed as a hat – or exfoliant. This "kelping" behaviour is more common than we realised
- Written by: Olaf Meynecke, Research Fellow in Marine Science, Griffith University
WA Western Whale Watch Australia, CC BY-NC-NDIf you’re a whale, there’s often not too much to see out in deeper water. Perhaps that’s why so many whales get playful with kelp and other seaweed.
Once might have been chance. But we’ve collected over 100 examples on social media of whales playing with seaweed, known as...