sperm whale

     

P. macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758

Trivia about sperm whale

  • This largest toothed whale is also called a cachalot
  • Moby Dick is a ferocious albino whale of this species
  • The largest toothed animal in the world, it was named for the milky-white substance found in its head
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, MA.) Suspended above the museum's dramatic Great Mammal Hall are the skeletons of three whale species--a finback whale, a right whale, & this, the largest of the toothed whales

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