Discover how much the mighty sperm whale eats and how they work together to care for their young.
Deep-diving toothed whales wash up dead with stomachs full of plastic and prey alike. Their built-in sonar likely can’t tell ...
The underwater call of the sperm whale, the earth’s loudest ... to hunt their food with sound rather than sight. They eat ...
The squid was eating a hooked toothfish when it was hauled ... â€" most of which were found in the stomachs of sperm whales. Colossal squid are not related to giant squid, which also ...
Ambergris is essentially a clump of squid beaks bound by a fatty secretion. Over time, it balls up in the intestine of some sperm whales. And eventually …. Out it goes. Now, in the strictest ...
Experiments show that the acoustic signature of plastic and prey is similar. That may confuse whales that use echolocation to hunt.
Whales are always on the move, so they have to eat a lot to ... from the huge sperm whale to tiny, dog-sized porpoises. Dolphins, pilot whales and beaked whales are also odontocetes. These whales ...