Male sperm whales, on average, are 16-18 meters long. This is 30-50% longer then females, who range from 12-14 meters from nose to tail. At birth, both make and female sperm whales are about 4 meters long (and 1,000 kilograms in weight!) These whales are huge animals!
Sort of. The Sperm whales tail is about 6-7 metres long.
Blue whales are usually about 30m long and Sperm whales are usually between 13 and 20m long. So Blue whales are usually 10-17m longer than sperm whales. (This is just the average length of these whales, bigger and smaller specimens do exist)
Baleen whales are technically larger than tooth whales because the blue whale is the largest animal on the planet, but the sperm whale, which is a tooth whale, is pretty large.The baleen whales are normally larger, except for the sperm whale, which can be as long as many baleen whales.
Adult Male Sperm Whales can be as long as 20 meters. The average size is around 17 meters and they weigh 40 tonnes or more. Adult Female Sperm whales are on an average 11 meters long and weigh around 14 tonnes.
Adult Male Sperm Whales can be as long as 20 meters. The average size is around 17 meters and they weigh 40 tonnes or more. Adult Female Sperm whales are on an average 11 meters long and weigh around 14 tonnes.
40 minutes
Blue Whales are the largest known species of animal ever known to man. Sperm whales are around 20 meters long while blue whales can be around 30 meters long and weigh twice as much as sperm whales.
Sperm whales mainly eat giant squid.
The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), is a whale.
Sperm whales mainly eat giant squid.
sperm whales can stay underwater for 90 minutes
No documented cases of sperm whales eating eachother; they prey on squid mostly, from small to colossal.