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  2. Moby Dick (whale) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Samson & Sally - Wikipedia

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    The film revolves around a young albino male sperm whale named Samson who strongly believes the legendary tales of Moby Dick. The legends say that Moby Dick was a hero for all whales, and that he will someday return. He meets Sally, a young black-and-white female sperm whale who is orphaned after her pod is slaughtered by whalers. Samson's pod ...

  4. Cetology of Moby-Dick - Wikipedia

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    The sperm whale is the third-largest whale species. II. Right whale (several species of the genus Eubalaena of the family Balaenidae), also known simply as the Whale, the Greenland Whale, the Black Whale, the Great Whale. Melville claims this whale was the first to be regularly hunted by human beings and is famously known for providing baleen ...

  5. Mocha Dick - Wikipedia

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    Mocha Dick (/ ˈ m ɒ tʃ ə d ɪ k /; died 1838) was the nickname given to a rogue albino (or possibly leucistic) male sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) that lived in the southeastern Pacific Ocean in the early 19th century, usually encountered in the waters near Mocha Island, off the central coast of Chile.

  6. Why 'In the Whale' documentary on Provincetown diver ... - AOL

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    'In the Whale,' the story of Provincetown lobster diver Michael Packard's life and his 30 seconds in a humpback's mouth, continues to sell out shows.

  7. List of organisms named after works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    "Combining the Latin words albus (white) and cetus (whale). The name pays tribute to H. Melville's classic American novel Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. In the novel, Melville refers to Moby-Dick as "the White Whale", a creature of "unwonted magnitude" with a "remarkable hue" and "deformed lower jaw".

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  9. Sperm Whale (film) - Wikipedia

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    Its sequel, Sperm Whale 2, is the highest-grossing movie in Iranian history with 20,941,000,000 Iranian Tomans (US$628,230) in sales. [ when? ] [ 3 ] Fereydoun Jeyrani , an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and television host, noted the success of the film relied on the comedy of the film, saying that people go to the cinema to be happy and ...