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Video shows the pair of French -kissing killer whales gently biting each other's tongues.
The video was captured by nature tourists in the Kvænangen fjords in Norway .
Researchers describe 'repeated episodes of gentle, face-to-face oral contact' Scientists still aren't sure why orcas might engage in this kissing-like activity, but it could be a form of social bonding or play.
However, Dr Rendle argues that even genuine scientific observations can 'never be a justification for captivity for a species like this'. Dr Rendle says: 'Make no mistake, this is a for-profit business trying to obscure the ethical issues with its existence by providing really quite lame studies like this.' 'If animals are in captivity for other reasons, it can be better to learn something from them while they are there, but it can never be a justification for captivity for a species like this everything we learn about them in captivity tells us more and more that they never should be there.'.
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