Die Geburt eines Pottwals wurde mit der Kamera detaillierter als je zuvor festgehalten, berichten Forscher in Science | Die Geburt des weiblichen Pottwals wurde von zehn weiteren Pottwalen unterstützt, fast alle weiblich, aber nicht alle verwandt – eine bisher noch nie dagewesene Kooperationsleistung

It takes a village to deliver a whale calf.

The birth of a sperm whale (*Physeter macrocephalus*) has been [captured on camera in more intimate detail than ever before](https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ady9280), researchers report March 26 in *Science*. The female sperm whale giving birth was aided by 10 other sperm whales, almost all female, but not all kin. The footage makes clear that, like humans, sperm whales benefit from cooperation, so much so that the instinct to help transcends family barriers.

“Not only did we capture such an amazing dataset, but we actually knew each of these whales,” says marine biologist David Gruber with Project CETI, a nonprofit based in the Caribbean island Dominica dedicated to sperm whale research. That made it possible to tease out the role of each whale in the birthing process.

Observing the birth of a whale is extremely rare, and there have been only a handful of scientific studies that describe a sperm whale birth. While scientists had seen sperm whales helping each other during birth before, none of those accounts were recorded on video.

[**Read more here**](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-video-sperm-whale-birth?utm_source=Reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=rmh) **and the** [**research article here.** ](https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ady9280)