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Sperm Whales
Distinguished by their extremely large heads, sperm whales are the largest of the toothed whales. Sperm whales inhabit all oceans of the world. This category explores everything about the sperm whales habits, including feeding, migration and much much more.
323 Questions
Would a shark eat a sperm whale?
Sharks are extremely dangerous and brutal killers and are known to kill almost every kind to aquatic creature. They will hatch clever plans and fight in groups, and they will eventually catch their prey. Sometimes, they'll eat sperm whale calves when they see a calf with her weak mother (the mother doesn't eat anything on the breeding grounds) heading to the feeding grounds if they are lucky and they have a large group, and a few times, they can even eat adult sperm whales, but not after killing them first.
What is a waxy substance in the intestine of sperm whales?
It is called "Ambergris"
Ambergris is a solid, waxy, flammable substance produced in the digestive system of sperm whales. It was sought after as a fixative in perfumery. And this is one of the reasons why sperm whales were killed in large numbers.
Dose sperm whale blow up when it dies?
during the last moments of the sperm whales life he will ejaculate large quantities of sperm and then he will actually perform mutual masturbation with his partner.
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How do hypercarniverous whales differ from modern whales?
There were several apex predator whales during the Cenozoic era.
The first in fossil register from the early Eocene period was Basilosaurus cetoides, a rather slim but very large (up to 20 metres long) odontoceti whale that preyed on sharks and bony fish.
But the indisputably top predator of all whale species ever was Livyatan melvillei, the only possible contender of C. megalodon on the Miocene oceans.
Very few fossil remains have been found after the first discovery, in 2008, of Livyatan melvillei, and no complete fossil skeleton has been found to this day.
However, the maximum total lenght of Livyatan melvillei must have been 17 metres, or possibly even larger.
The big difference of these prehistoric odontoceti whales from contemporaneous toothed whales, like the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), lies in the fact that the early «hypercarnivorous» whales had teeth in upper AND lower jaws, unlike the sperm whale, which has teeth only in the lower jaw. The only possible exception could have been the Aulophyseterwhale from late Miocene, but this is still a matter of debate among paleontologists.
Livyatan melvillei had the largest teeth EVER from a carnivorous animal (including dinosaurs, pliosaurs and mosasaurs), more than 36 cm in total lenght. Larger fossil remains of this monster whale are expected to be discovered.
Just to make a comparison, the largest fossil teeth of C. megalodon is 19,4 cm, and it was found by professional fossil hunter Vito Bertucci, worldwide known as the «Megalodon Man». He died recently during a very dangerous dive in the Ogeechee River, near the Intercoastal Waterway in Bryan county, searching for even larger meg teeth. Vito Bertucci was aged 48.
How long can a sperm whale hold its breath underwater?
Superm whales can hold their breathe for as long as an hour and a half. During that time, they can dive over 7,000 feet deep. They go to such great depths to hunt their main prey, squid, including giant squid.
Can you still get pregnant if the sperm hits the air?
If the sperm Doesn't touch the vagina in any way, shape or form then No, you cannot get pregnant.
Whales are marine mammals of order Cetacea which are neither - dolphin members, in other words, of the families delphinidea or platanistoidae - nor porpoises. they include the blue whale, the largest animal ever to have lived. like all mammals, whales breath air into lungs, are warm-blooded, feed their young with milk from mammary glands, and have some hair, althought very little.
How long in micro meters long is a sperm cell?
sperm cells are microscopic so they cannot be measured but they are around 1/100000th of a millimetre
Sperm Whales have been discovered living in all oceans around the world.
However they are generally found in the oceans between the equator and the arctic.
Sperm whales are the most common type of whale that we can find. They are present in almost every ocean and see in the world. Pacific ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean etc. They usually prefer ice free waters that are over 1000 meters deep. However they cant be found in the black and red seas.
Killer whales/orcas eat sperm whale calves.
A killer whale eats a sperm whale
some other whales like theo orca whale eats or can mostly attack the sperm whale
the only marine animal that can eat a sperm whale is a giant squid.
What dangers has a sperm whale survived?
One of the biggest danger is us humans. in the early 1900s humans killed sperm whales with harpoons because the sperm whale has a HUGE amount of oil in its head along with other whales but the sperm whale has the largest amount of oil, the sperm whale was protected in the 1960s. The killer whale is also a big threat to the baby sperm, when the mother leaves to take a deep dive in the blackness to eat squid it leaves its venerable baby behind at the surface and the killers take advantage to that.
