Definitions

1. Sperm whales, the biggest of all toothed whales, inhabit every ocean. (Web site)
2. Sperm Whales, the largest toothed whale and Killer Whales, the largest dolphins swim our seas. (Web site)
3. Sperm Whales are amongst the most sexually dimorphic (that is, males and females differ greatly) of all cetaceans. (Web site)
4. Sperm whales are carnivores that mostly eat giant squid that live on the ocean bottom at great depths. (Web site)
5. Sperm whales are not the easiest of whales to watch, due to their long dive times and ability to travel long distances underwater.

Spermaceti Oil

1. The most important whale oil was sperm or spermaceti oil, yielded by Sperm Whales.

Largest Toothed Whale

1. The star of Moby Dick, great sperm whales hold many records, including deepest diving mammal, largest toothed whale and biggest brain. (Web site)

Largest Brain

1. Sperm whales have huge heads (40% of the body length) and possess the largest brain of any creature that has ever lived on Earth. (Web site)

Physeter Macrocephalus

1. The age structure and growth of female sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) in southern Australian waters.
2. Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) are present from April to July; killer whales (Orcinus orca) frequent the strait in July and August. (Web site)
3. Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) are the largest toothed whales. (Web site)

Modern Sperm Whales

1. For modern sperm whale to weigh that much would be indeed freakish, but I am not talking about modern Sperm whales, but ancient ones.

Narwhal

1. They include the beluga or white, bottlenose, narwhal, pilot and sperm whales.

Narwhals

1. We learned about and did a notebooking page on toothed whales – dolphins, porpoises, killer whales, beluga whales, narwhals, and sperm whales.

Giant Sperm Whales

1. Giant sperm whales were extremely important to the whaling industry. (Web site)
2. At a little over 3 metres in length, and weighing around 400kg, Pygmy Sperm Whales closely resemble their cousins, the Giant Sperm Whales. (Web site)

Odontoceti

1. If you're going to insist that Odontoceti should be removed from the whale category, Sperm Whales, Narwhals, Beluga, etc., are all suddenly not whales.

Echolocation

1. Like other toothed whales, sperm whales use echolocation to find their food. (Web site)

Bull Sperm Whales

1. Bull Sperm Whales are avoided, as they are large, powerful, and aggressive enough to kill Orcas.
2. Bull Sperm Whales are avoided, as they are large, powerful, and aggressive enough to kill Killer Whales. (Web site)
3. Bull Sperm Whales are avoided, as they are large, powerful, and aggressively fight back. (Web site)

Large Sharks

1. The adults have few natural enemies, with the exception of large sharks, sperm whales, and orcas. (Web site)
2. Sperm whales have two natural predators, killer whales and large sharks, but by far, their greatest predators are humans. (Web site)
3. Large sharks may also be a threat, especially for young sperm whales. (Web site)

Sperm Whales Live

1. Sperm whales live in open areas of water, either tropical or cool waters.

Spermaceti

1. In addition, spermaceti, a thick liquid from the head of sperm whales, was used to make high quality, smokeless and odorless candles. (Web site)

Ambergris

1. The industries founded on ambergris, sperm oil, and spermaceti resulted in the slaughter of sperm whales almost to extinction.
2. Ambergris, a solid, waxy, flammable substance produced in the digestive system of sperm whales, was also sought as a fixative in perfumery.
3. Sperm whales produce a waxy substance called ambergris. (Web site)

Male Sperm Whales

1. The largest toothed whales are male sperm whales, which are over 50 feet long and weigh about 43 tons. (Web site)
2. Male sperm whales seem to be solitary wanderers, traveling from ocean to ocean with no particular pattern.

Elephant Seals

1. Sperm whales have been recorded at depths of more than 9,000 feet and elephant seals at depths greater than 3,000 feet.

Great Depths

1. Because of the great depths to which they dive, sperm whales sometimes drown when entangled in transoceanic telephone cables. (Web site)

Sperm Whales Feed

1. Sperm whales feed mainly on squid, for which they can dive to 1,000 m/3,280 ft (one dive was recorded at over 3,000 m/9,841 ft).
2. At these depths, deep-living squids on which sperm whales feed, are abundant. (Web site)

Odontocetes

1. Odontocetes include dolphins, porpoise, Orca and sperm whales. (Web site)
2. Although sperm whales - the largest of the Odontocetes are our primary focus, we are always looking for other species to record in our sightings data. (Web site)

Beaked Whales

1. Odontoceti, odontocetous Toothed whales: dolphins; porpoises; sperm whales; beaked whales.
2. Oceanic species such as beaked whales, sperm whales and large baleen whales are not as familiar to Australian whale watchers. (Web site)
3. Whale species likely to feel the effects of the leak include sperm whales, Bryde's whales and beaked whales.

Ocean Bottom

1. Sperm whales are believed to forage primarily on or near the ocean bottom using their highly developed echolocation to find food in the dark depths. (Web site)

Giant Squid

1. Giant squid, measuring up to 10 m (30 ft) long including tentacles, sometimes fight back, leaving deep cuts and scratches on the sperm whales.
2. Like the mako, the sperm whales have almost no natural enemies, the only ones of consequence being the Orcas and the giant squid.
3. Prey includes the Giant Squid and it is common for Sperm Whales to wear scars from encounters. (Web site)

Blowhole

1. Sperm whales have one blowhole located at the left of the forehead. (Web site)
2. Sperm whales are the only great whales to have only one blowhole (instead of two). (Web site)

Surface

1. When at the surface, porpoises, beaked whales, and pygmy and dwarf sperm whales (Kogia breviceps and K. sima, respectively) are cryptic and undemonstrative.
2. As sperm whales descended from the surface, they emitted a regular series of "clicks". (Web site)
3. They followed in the wake of the sperm whales, which seemed to stop travelling to log at the surface whenever the pygmy killer whales approached them.

Underwater

1. Sperm Whales can dive to extraordinary depths of up to 3km below the surface and can remain underwater for over 2 hours. (Web site)
2. These adaptations enable species such as the sperm whales to remain underwater for up to 2 hours. (Web site)
3. Sperm whales are highly acoustic animals that emit powerful, regular clicks almost continuously while they are underwater. (Web site)

Thought

1. Toothed whales, such as sperm whales, associate with one another, but baleen whales have been thought less social.
2. Sperm whales have disproportionately small eyes so it is thought that they do not see particularly well. (Web site)
3. Smaller than its giant relative, lesser sperm whales are thought to have developed an unusual method of escaping predators. (Web site)

Blue

1. Other whales that do the same are: Bowhead,Blue, Right, and Sperm Whales. (Web site)
2. Blue and sperm whales can be seen in Australian waters but they tend to stay in the deep, cold water off the continental shelf. (Web site)

Parasite

1. The largest roundworm, Placentonema gigantisma, is a parasite found in the placentas of sperm whales which can reach up to 9 m in length.

Attacking

1. While looking for cetaceans we encountered three examples of Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) "attacking" a shark.
2. In 1998, off the coast of Indonesia, 3 sperm whales were observed attacking a rare, filter feeding megamouth shark.
3. Off the coast of Indonesia, three Sperm whales were observed attacking a megamouth shark (the 13th observed megamouth). (Web site)

Fishes

1. Beaked whales, like sperm whales, are closely associated with deep water, because they feed primarily on mesopelagic species of cephalopods and fishes. (Web site)
2. Sperm whales feed on fishes and particularly on large deep-water squid.

Teeth

1. Fossil sperm whales differed from modern sperm whales in the number of teeth and the shape of the face and jaws.
2. Some large whales, like the sperm whales, have teeth.
3. Ancient Hawaiians carved pendants from the teeth of whales that washed ashore but did not hunt sperm whales. (Web site)

Sperm Whale Family

1. The sperm whale family, or sperm whales, is a common name for the Physeteridae or superfamily Physeteroidea.
2. Sperm whales: The sperm whale family is the most basal toothed whale group and actually comprises two distinct families with a total of 3 species. (Web site)

Scientists

1. Because sperm whales are skilled at locating giant squid, scientists have tried to observe them to study the squid.

Advent

1. By the early 1740s, with the advent of spermaceti candles (before 1743), American vessels began to focus on sperm whales.
2. Prior to the advent of cannon harpoons, diesel-powered catcher boats, and massive factory ships, the hunting of sperm whales was a dangerous occupation. (Web site)

Pygmy

1. Pygmy sperm whales are though to be more pelagic and dwarf sperm whales more coastal (Reeves et al.
2. One of the primary sources of food for the pygmy sperm whales is squid, which have an inedible beak and pens.
3. Habitat: Pygmy Sperm Whales are oceanic animals, moving across and over the continental shelf to feed.

Baleen

1. They have been hunted commercially for whale oil, meat, baleen and ambergris (a perfume ingredient from the intestine of sperm whales) since the 1600s.

Body Weight

1. Sperm whales are prodigious feeders and eat around 3% of their body weight per day.
2. Sperm whales consume nearly three percent of their body weight in food each and every day. (Web site)

Kaikoura

1. Kaikoura in New Zealand is a world-famous site for whales (in particular Sperm Whales) and Albatrosses. (Web site)
2. Sperm Whales can be seen throughout the year off Kaikoura. (Web site)

Year Round

1. At Andenes on Andøya in Vesterålen, sperm whales can be observed all year round, although whale watching trips are only offered from May till September. (Web site)
2. Sperm whales live in the waters around the island all year round. (Web site)

Gulf

1. Now, instead of hunters, the same oil that helped to save the sperm whales from extinction threatens their survival in the Gulf. (Web site)
2. In 2007 and 2008, Mate and his colleagues tagged sperm whales in the Gulf of California with a new type of data-gathering sensor.
3. If the Gulf of Mexico oil spill kills just three sperm whales, the local population may be in serious risk in the long run, experts say.

Pod

1. A pod of sperm whales can often be spotted just yards from your boat, since there are no laws here regarding the distance you must keep from the whales.
2. Off the coast of Indonesia in late summer of 1998, Whale researchers witnessed a pod of Sperm Whales apparently attacking a lone Megamouth Shark. (Web site)

Pods

1. The oldest sperm whales are most often seen alone, however the young males often stick together in pods of up to 50-100 animals. (Web site)

Dwarf Sperm Whales

1. Three species in 2 genera (Physeter, the giant sperm whale; and Kogia, containing two species called pygmy and dwarf sperm whales) make up this family.
2. There has been debate and differing opinion as to the correct classification of the Pygmy and Dwarf Sperm Whales (see sperm whale family for details).
3. Pilot and dwarf sperm whales are both deep-diving animals that feed off the ocean floor and slopes of the continental shelf. (Web site)

Groups

1. Sperm whales are often spotted in groups (called pods) of some 15 to 20 animals. (Web site)
2. Groups of sperm whales begin their migration to the equator from the Arctic and Antarctic every fall for the winter breeding season.
3. Sperm Whales are frequent, often accompanied by groups of Short-finned Pilot Whales. (Web site)

Behaviour

1. Dr Mate explained that, with sperm whales, which dive to great depths, it was far more difficult to capture the behaviour.
2. Found some good information of Orca pod attacks on Sperm Whales, which includes the behaviour of both species.

Categories

1. Mammals > Marine Mammals > Cetaceans > Toothed Whales
2. Killer Whales
3. Animals > Specific Animals > Whales > Pilot Whales
4. Squid
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Pygmy Sperm Whale

Sperm Whale Family

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