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Charli Grimes

@charli-ocean.bsky.social

PhD student at the University of Exeter studying the social behaviour of killer whales

Charli Grimes @charli-ocean.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Loved presenting (via wild gesticulation) at the Society of Marine Mammalogy - UK and Ireland student chapter conference this week! Awesome to see such cool work being done by ECRs. #UKIRSC26 #marinemammals #research

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Charli Grimes @charli-ocean.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

We did some science. We found some things. Killer whales get by with a little kelp from their friends. Evidence of tool manufacture and use in resident killer whales - check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

sciencedirect.com

Manufacture and use of allogrooming tools by wild killer whales

The manufacture and use of tools, while widespread in terrestrial animals1, has been less frequently reported in marine taxa2. In cetaceans, clear exa…

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