Sure, whales cannot have "culture" if we define it as "art, morals, laws" etc, by definition. But we also need a word for a shared, passed-down learned experie

Sure, whales cannot have "culture" if we define it as "art, morals, laws" etc, by definition. But we also need a word for a shared, passed-down learned experiences. Such a thing has been observed in numerous species. For example, certain groups of gulls have learned to drop shells onto the rocks to smash them open. Similar gulls in other areas have not learned this. The ones that have have passed this lesson down for generations. "Culture" to me sounds like a perfectly-good word for it. Cambridge Dictionary has the definition "the way of life of a particular people, esp. as shown in their ordinary behavior and habits." Words can have multiple meanings in different contexts.