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  2. Cetacean surfacing behaviour - Wikipedia

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    Humpback whale breach sequence. A breach or a lunge is a leap out of the water, also known as cresting. The distinction between the two is fairly arbitrary: cetacean researcher Hal Whitehead defines a breach as any leap in which at least 40% of the animal's body clears the water, and a lunge as a leap with less than 40% clearance. [2]

  3. Cetacean stranding - Wikipedia

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    This includes the sperm whale, oceanic dolphins, usually pilot and Orcas, and a few beaked whale species. The most common species to strand in the United Kingdom is the harbour porpoise ; the common dolphin ( Delphinus delphis ) is second-most common, and after that long-finned pilot whales ( Globicephala melas ).

  4. Sperm whale - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Scientists are learning the basic building blocks of sperm ...

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    Scientists studying the sperm whales that live around the Caribbean island of Dominica have described for the first time the basic elements of how they might be talking to each other, in an effort ...

  6. Understanding sperm whales through AI - AOL

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    All the information is in a database so we can see where they've been, who they've been hanging out with, kind of what the social structure of what the groups are."Steiner says the end goal is to ...

  7. Sperm whales ‘modulate clicks in similar way to human speech’

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  8. Pygmy sperm whale - Wikipedia

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    Pygmy sperm whales and dwarf sperm whales are unique among cetaceans in using a form of "ink" to evade predation in a manner similar to squid. Both species have a sac in the lower portion of their intestinal tracts that contains up to 12 liters of dark reddish-brown fluid, which can be ejected to confuse or discourage potential predators. [30]

  9. Cetacean strandings in Ghana - Wikipedia

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    In Ghana, a dwarf sperm whale was taken by fishermen from Apam in 1998. Two unidentified Kogia sp. were landed, one at Shama in 1994 and another at Apam in 2003. Very little information is available on sperm whales in the Gulf of Guinea, however females and juveniles are believed to be present throughout the year beyond the continental shelf.