Scientists record female sperm whales assisting in calf's birth

Scientists record female sperm whales assisting in calf's birth

Female sperm whales lift a newborn sperm whale calf above water until it is able to swim on its own. Photo: Project CETI Being able to watch a mother sperm whale give birth to her calf in the eastern Caribbean Sea a couple of summers ago “felt like an encounter with something both impossibly rare and profoundly ancient,” marine biologist David Gruber told Coastal Review. Gruber, a National Geographic Explorer and City University of New York dist…