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What Can We Learn From Whale Ear Wax?

Earwax. It can tell you certain things about a person. Like how much you prioritise personal hyg...

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14.07 16 Mar 2019


What Can We Learn From Whale Ear Wax?



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14.07 16 Mar 2019


Earwax.

It can tell you certain things about a person. Like how much you prioritise personal hygiene for instance.

It can’t tell you how stressed you were feeling in 1996 though.

Unless that is, you happen to be a whale.

Stephen J. Trumble from the Department of Biology at Baylor University tells Jonathan how


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