Michael Noonan
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"Michael Noonan" is an Irish Fine Gael politician and has been the Minister for Finance (Ireland)/Minister for Finance since March 2011. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Limerick East (Dáil Éireann constituency)/Limerick East and later Limerick City (Dáil Éireann constituency)/Limerick City constituencies since Irish general election, 1981/1981.

Noonan has been a minister in every Fine Gael-led government since 1982, serving in the cabinets of Garret FitzGerald, John Bruton and Enda Kenny. During these terms of office he held the positions of Minister for Justice and Equality/Minister for Justice, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation/Minister for Industry and Commerce and Minister for Health (Ireland)/Minister for Health. When Fine Gael lost power after the Irish general election, 1997/1997 general election Noonan remained an important figure in the party, taking over as spokesperson on finance.

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This is an example in which a new behavior spread through a population, ... We had the opportunity to see a tradition form and spread in exactly the way that cultures do in humans.

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Both whales were pretty good at it. They caught a sea gull once every 20 days or so.

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We want everyone to use this thing. The more ubiquitous it is out there, the better for us.

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So it spread through the entire community.

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It was once believed that most animal behavior, from the food they ate to the places they slept, was based on instinct. This new discovery supports the growing view that animals like killer whales are very prone to learning by imitation, and that they are 'cultural' in nature.

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It looked liked one was watching while the other tried.

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In general, humans have long pictured themselves as separate from nature, but one of the lessons that we repeatedly learn when we study animal behavior is that animals are much more like us than we ever imagined, and we are much more like them than we had thought.

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The whale spit fish at the surface of the pool and then sank below and waited. The gull came down to get the fish, and the whale grabbed it.

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