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Samson, an albino sperm whale who does not have any friends. (voiced by Jesper Klein) Sally, a rare black and white sperm whale who is the last of her kind and Samson's love interest. (voiced by Helle Hertz) Samson's Mother, a solid black whale who tells Moby Dick's story and is later sacrificed to save her son. (voiced by Bodil Udsen)
The sperm whale or cachalot [a] (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator. It is the only living member of the genus Physeter and one of three extant species in the sperm whale family, along with the pygmy sperm whale and dwarf sperm whale of the genus Kogia.
The animal's exact dimensions are never given, but the novel claims that the largest sperm whales can reach a length of 90 ft (27 m) [2] (larger than any officially recorded sperm whale) [3] and that Moby Dick is possibly the largest sperm whale that ever lived.
A professional diver captured a rare video at the beginning of June of a group of sperm whales 'cuddling'. Kayleigh was having a lucky day using a drone for the first time when she noticed the ...
Sperm whales are massive deep-sea predators with a gray body, pointed teeth and a block-like head. Naturaliste Charters shared a video of the rare encounter on Facebook on March 26.
The designs on the pieces varied greatly as well, though they often had whaling scenes on them. For example, Herman Melville, in Moby-Dick, refers to "lively sketches of whales and whaling-scenes, graven by the fishermen themselves on Sperm Whale-teeth, or ladies' busks wrought out of the Right Whale-bone, and other skrimshander articles". [6]
Researchers of chatty creatures like bats, bees, songbirds and whales gather many hours of sound or video recordings and then plug that data into AI language models, the way we might with tools ...
Physeter is a genus of toothed whales.There is only one living species in this genus: the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). [2] Some extremely poorly known fossil species have also been assigned to the same genus including Physeter antiquus (5.3–2.6 mya) from the Pliocene of France, [3] and Physeter vetus (2.6 mya – 12 ka) from the Quaternary of the U.S. state of Georgia. [4]